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Country. United Kingdom. Previous show (s) Reporting Scotland, BBC Northern Ireland. Stavros "Stav" Danaos (born 8 April 1978) is an English weather presenter of Greek Cypriot descent. He currently presents the BBC 's national weather forecast and has previously worked for Reporting Scotland .
BBC South Today, BBC London. Christopher Blanchett (born 1982) is an English broadcast journalist. He works for the BBC, presenting the weather forecast for Reporting Scotland. He has also worked as an assistant producer for the national BBC News Channel .
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
Learn about the people who present the weather forecasts on BBC, the British public service broadcaster. Find out their backgrounds, careers and achievements.
She regularly presents the weather for BBC's Reporting Scotland and An Là. MacDonald won the prestigious women's gold medal at the Royal National Mòd in 2006. [2] In 2008, she had an operation to remove her appendix, shortly after her operation she entered the Mòd in Falkirk, where she won the women's traditional medal. [3]
From 4 February 2015 to 27 December 2019, the programme had a 45-minute format, with a half-hour segment focusing on British national and international news (with an emphasis on the latter), a 12-minute segment of local news from the BBC's Nations and regions across the UK, and concluding with the national weather forecast.
20 March 1986. Shetland holds the unofficial British record for wind speed. A gust of 197 mph (317 km/h) was reported on 1 January 1992. An earlier gust in 1962 was recorded at 177 mph (285 km/h), both at RAF Saxa Vord. [ 12] However, it is expected that higher gusts than those reported would have been achieved as during both storms the ...
After a soggy and unsettled beginning to the week across parts of England and Wales, the UK is poised for an extended warm spell towards the end of this week and into the weekend.. Temperatures ...