The Tv Weather Forecast ...

[ichkeria]

... is 70 years old today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/67934533

Do you have a favourite forecaster, or memory, from the past?

[webbo3]

Theres no hurricane coming.

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[Cloverjo]

I liked the man with the fluffy cloud jumpers. He always talked about 'spits and spots' and 'dibs and dabs'. Can't remember his name.  

[-SharonA-]

Francis Wilson, staggering around the weather board!!

[andy-hughes]

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'.

[douglas9401]

Kirsteen MacDonald, can't usually remember the forecast after though.

[dave50]

Anyone remember barbara Edwards?

[Old_Geezer]

I liked Carol Kirkwood. Not only gorgeous but with a TV personality what was cheerful, friendly, good sense of humour.

[Canary42]

My favourite is the piece of seaweed hanging outside my back door 😀

[Ken4155]

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.

 

[choux]

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 :)

[choux]

andy, I liked Ian, too. One night he was doing the forecast after the main news at 9:00 p.m. and had some satellite pictures taken within the previous half hour. He said 'Sometimes we are quicker getting the photos developed than Boots'. Classic.