"Col" wrote in message
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"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Col" wrote in message
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Well I think the BBC first started broadcasting in 1924, so I guess it
would have been then.

I don't know the answer to this, but the first professional
meteorologist
to present a weather forecast on the radio probably happened very
late ... possibly even after the TV ones started. I know that the
regular forecasts were very carefully and formally scripted by the
Met Office and read verbatim by the BBC announcer into the 1950s.
I have a book which contains copies of a handful of these scripts from
the early-50s.

There were, of course, many talks on the weather from the very
earliest days of radio, from the likes of H.R.Mill, Napier Shaw,
Gordon Manley, etc.

Perhaps contributors even older than I am can enlighten us ... :-P

Philip, that does surprise me.
I would have thought that as soon as regular radio broadcasts were
being transmitted then it would have been natural for a public weather
forecast to have been broadcast as well. I guess it was a different
world back then.

Well, they were, but they were scripts read by the announcer.

pe