I’ve added some more faces to my rogues gallery database of UKUKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. TV weather presenters. I’ve now got 190 of them, and I would say that there are still some more of them out there to add to it. Interestingly over 55% of those are female. There’s a bit of fuss about it this year, since it’s now 70 years since George Cowling presented the first in-vision forecast on TV in 1954, whatever that means, beating the first newsreader to it by several months. A wee bit too young to have appreciated George’s approach, but I’ve seen a fair few of them have a go, for good or bad since then.
I’ve been busy over the last couple of days updating that old application I wrote a few years ago now to keep a list of all BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, based at Broadcasting House in London. It is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting. weather presenters since 1954. I thought that at the same time I would add all the ITV presenters and all regional and UKMOUKMOThe Meteorological Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy presenters that I could find as well. I found the best way of doing this was using YouTube to search and grab a 112 x 112 thumbnail image of each of them. I was amazed just how many of I found – 148 of them! I don’t recognise many of those in the ITV regions, but I do recognise a good proportion of those on the BBC from our travels around the UKUKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. over the years. What strikes me that there’s a whole big weather presenters world out there, and once thy hit the big time on national TV they are very loathed to leave it behind, Tomasz Schafernaker already has 23 years under his belt bar an infamous short break. Once I’ve fully populated the data set, I will be able to do some further analysis on which country all these presenterts are from. I already know that 53.4% of them are female, which is not that surprising, because the ITV seem to rarely employ a man when you can employ pretty women, and who can blame them. Finally here is a Gantt chart timeline of presenters of the national Weather on BBC TV since 1954, again some of the data is incomplete or wrong, and I am a few presenters short, particularly before 1980. George Cowling who did the first national forecast headed a team of three – but who were they?
