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During this time, she applied for weather-presenting jobs, landing her current role in 2008 – on her third attempt. [7] Akhgar presents the weather with Sue Charles, and acts as a relief presenter for Derek Brockway. She also presents regular bulletins on BBC Radio Wales throughout the day. She has described the harassment she experiences as ...
Weather Weather 401 Forecast maps index Weather 405 Warnings Weather Severe weather warnings and flood warnings 430 Travel Travel The BBC Travel website closed in February 2017. As such there is no direct online successor to the Red Button travel pages. 431 UK motorways Travel 432 Rail Travel 435 Ferries Travel 436 London Transport Travel 437
July – The BBC Television Service revives the regular televised weather forecast. [11] 29 September – The BBC Television Service first airs Come Dancing, a TV ballroom dancing competition show which would run until 1998. 26 October – How Do You View?, the first comedy series on British television, starring Terry-Thomas, first airs.
In 1999, Ralston returned to Scotland as a traffic reporter at BBC Scotland; afterwards, she moved into news and weather presenting. [2] She was listed as the third most popular weather presenter in a UK-wide vote in a 2017 Radio Times poll. [3]
The station was initially launched as BBC 7 on 15 December 2002 by comedian Paul Merton.The first programme was broadcast at 8 p.m. and was simulcast with Radio 4. [5] The station, referred to by the codename 'Network Z' while in development, was named without the word 'Radio' to reflect the station's presence on the internet and on digital television in addition to radio.
The scale is used in the Shipping Forecasts broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom, and in the Sea Area Forecast from Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Service. Met Éireann issues a "Small Craft Warning" if winds of Beaufort force 6 (mean wind speed exceeding 22 knots) are expected up to 10 nautical miles offshore.
The list of weather records includes the most extreme ... Highest minimum temperature for a 24-hour period and for a calendar day: 42.6 °C (108.7 °F) at ...
The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was launched in Massachusetts in 1937, which prompted a switch from routine aircraft observation to radiosondes within two years. The Bureau prohibited the word "tornado" from being used in any of its weather products out of concern for inciting panic (a move contradicted in its intentions by the high death tolls in past tornado outbreaks due to the lack of ...