On Jan 11, 9:25*am, Richard Dixon wrote:
On Jan 11, 12:31*am, Alan Greig wrote:

I have been listening to Rob for some time. A Cloudy Language features
the words of several weather forecasters and was originally inspired by
ITV presenter Si n Lloyd's pronouncement that "Tomorrow we'll be
speaking mainly a cloudy language." But Rob has always been the master.

He was idiosyncratic and despite slowly morphing into a cross between
a badger and Prince Charles, really should be considered to continue.
Not quite sure how team-related skills are correlated with ability to
present a forecast per comments above. Bill Giles was apparently a
nasty piece of work as a manager of the team and still turned out a
good forecast.

If I wanted to keep, say, 5 forecasters it would probably be McElwee,
Gibbs, Avery, Betts and Willetts - in no particular order (although I
think Peter Gibbs is the best of the lot).

Richard

Whatever happened to David Braine and John Hammond? - both turned out
to be OK presenters after insignificant debuts - though admittedly not
in the same league as Peter Gibbs