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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 .
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.
On 14 October 2007, he appeared on Radio 4's Sunday news review Broadcasting House as a guest newspaper reviewer and delivered the weather forecast at the end of the programme. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Great Storm, Fish returned to deliver the weather forecast on the BBC's One O'Clock and Six O'Clock news on 15 October 2007.
Reports from these coastal stations and automatic weather logging stations in the British Isles are included in the extended Shipping Forecasts on BBC Radio 4 at 0048 and 0520 local time each day. Map of sea areas and coastal weather stations referred to in the Shipping Forecast.
Microsoft's Aurora system offers global 10-day weather and 5-day air pollution (CO 2, NO, NO 2, SO 2, O 3, and particulates) forecasts with claimed accuracy similar to physics-based models, but at orders-or-magnitude lower cost. Aurora was trained on more than a million hours of data from six weather/climate models. [83] [84]
Rachel Mackley. Kirsty McCabe. Ian McCaskill. Rob McElwee. Gail McGrane. Nick Miller (weather forecaster)
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Francis Wilson (meteorologist) Francis Alfred Wilson, FRMetS, CMet (Chartered Meteorologist), [1] (born 27 February 1949) [2] is a Scottish-born weather forecaster, from Buckinghamshire, who was a presenter and the Head of Weather on the BBC's Breakfast Time and Breakfast News from 1983 until 1992, and Sky News from 1993 until 2010. [3]