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The UK is braced for power cuts and mass travel disruption over the weekend as the Met Office warned of heavy snow and freezing rain.. Stranded vehicles on the roads, delayed or cancelled rail and ...
The Met Office weather warnings in place are: An amber warning for snow across northern England has been extended until 06:00 GMT Monday, but now covers a smaller area
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 .
After reading geophysics and planetary physics at Newcastle University, Hudson joined the Met Office and trained for two years at Leeds Weather Centre. Hudson combined this with a two-year stint as a weather presenter for BBC Look North and for the BBC local radio stations in Leeds, York, Humberside and Sheffield.
After studying broadcast meteorology with the Met Office and the BBC Weather Centre, Donovan started presenting weather forecasts for the BBC's regional TV and local radio services in the Yorkshire and North Midlands, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and North East and Cumbria regions.
Met Office Chief Meteorologist Jason Kelly said: "The influence of Storm Éowyn on the UK's weather will diminish as it moves further north and east on Saturday morning.
The Shipping Forecast was established by Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the first professional weather forecaster, captain of HMS Beagle and founder of the Met Office. [2] In October 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter was wrecked in a strong storm off Anglesey ; 450 people lost their lives.