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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 .
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 .
The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, [2] is the United Kingdom's national weather and climate service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and is led by CEO [3] Penelope Endersby, who took on the role as Chief Executive in December 2018 and is the first woman to do so. [4]
Robert FitzRoy. Original release. 24 August 1867 (by telegraph) The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
7 August 2018. Peak temp. 35.3 °C (95.5 °F), recorded at Faversham, Kent on 26 July 2018 [ 1][ 2] The 2018 Britain and Ireland heatwave was a period of unusually hot weather that took place in June, July and August. It caused widespread drought, hosepipe bans, crop failures, and a number of wildfires.
Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, West Germany, East Germany, Denmark. The Burns' Day Storm (also known as Cyclone Daria) was an extremely violent windstorm that took place on 25–26 January 1990 over North-Western Europe. It is one of the strongest European windstorms on record and caused many fatalities in the UK and Europe.
Weather forecast for Thursday as Storm Babet continues to batter the UK. 07:10, Stuti Mishra. Heavy rains have continued this morning in large parts of Scotland and northern UK brought by Storm Babet.