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pan.2004.01.09.22.30.44.797561@firstnamelastname. org wrote:

Phillip Eden did a nice job of explaining current vs historic
forecast
technology today on R5 (given the limited slot just before midday),
but
as he stated that he's a radio-only weatherman, when was the first
public broadcast radio forecast made?

26 March 1923 was the date daily forecasts started. Now did anyone
remember last year to celebrate the 80th anniversary ...

1959 London WC opens - and I *think* it was around this time that the
first 'live'/unscripted radio presentation was made from the studio
there - I used to have the date but can't put my hand to it - certainly
very early 1960's at the latest. But, much was still scripted on radio.

This makes sense ... in which case the first meteorologist to present
a forecast on the radio could possibly have been Jack Armstrong,
Trevor Davies, or Norman Ellis ... although I don't remember listening
to weather forecasts in 1959, when they first began to impinge a
couple of years later I'm pretty sure that it was only the TV
forecasters who also did the forecasts on BBC radio -- mostly on the
Home Service but also occasionally on the Light Programme.

Philip Eden