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Do you have a favourite forecaster, or memory, from the past?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My favourite was Ian McCaskell.
I loved his soft Scots accent, and his slightly bumbly style.
I also enjoyed is occasional dry witicism, such as, when delivering a forcast about a particularly fierce dose of frost and snow, he said "You'll know in the morning, that 'Vorsprung durch teknik' means 'My car won't start'.
The very much now disgraced Fred Talbot's face when a streaker climbed on to his floating map of the UK, streaked past Talbot and leapt over to Ireland, a feat performed many times by Fred himself.
Such was Talbot's popularity (before certain facts became known), he drew large crowds to watch him on his floating map, and he was a much-loved presenter by Granada Reports viewers.
Many decades ago, when the BBC employed plastic images to add to the chart in an effort to 'enhance' the forecast the weatherman was explaining all the details including fog. As he turned to the weather chart an F had fallen off and the poor soul said 'Sorry about the f in fog'! Cannot remember who he was but the memory persists :)