I don't like any of them - I always root for the Lilt Ladies!

Did anyone see the Wincy Willis interview in The Guardian a month or so back. She now cuts a desperate figure, opening poetry festivals.

Who's your favourite clapped out weatherperson?

Francis "Bonkers" Wilson

Does anyone remember that bloke who used to do the weather on TVam called Captain Philpott (I think). If yer memories need jogging, just imagine Peter Snow not with his swingometer, but sticking magnetic symbols on a dodgy rotating weather map instead ... surreal.

>Does anyone remember that bloke who used to do the weather on TVam called Captain Philpott (I think). If yer memories need jogging, just imagine Peter Snow not with his swingometer, but sticking magnetic symbols on a dodgy rotating weather map instead ... surreal.
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Yes, I remember

I think the guy's name was Commander David Phillpot !!!

Anybody like Tanya James from Channel 5 ?
Does anybody have any info on her?
She's a babe?
What about local TV / Radio forecasters?
Shefali Oza from Midlands Today & Cayte Walker who does the traffic & travel on BBC Radio WM's weekday breakfast show. I've met Cayte. She's a babe too ! For pictures, see www.shane-oconnor.co.uk

Does anyone know the full story behind the ousting of Bill Giles? Wasn't there something to do with him being a git to all the other weather presenters, leading to a coup or disciplinary action?

My mum used to cream herself over the weatherman on Look East in the late 80s. David ???????

i take it we're being politically correct here and that weatherman includes women??

If so my vote has to go to the one and only Joanna Rice ;) A Twiggy/Ulrika lookalike with a soft husky voice and a body to raise the temperature to over a hundred farenheit!!!

Just keep wearing the tight leather!! :)

Is she that Scottish woman on TVAM? She's lovely...

Sorry - I mean GMTV of course - totally different!

For comedy value there's a bloke who crops up at the weekends on ITV, I think it's the national forecast, who looks like a proto-Jeremy Irons and caresses that little button on a wire they have (to change the background picture) with barely concealed excitement of a clearly sexual nature.

Oh and in 'how the mediocre have fallen' I remember the shock of seeing ex-Simon Mayo Radio 1 breakfast show 'woman laughing in background' Diane Oxberry doing the weather on NorthWest Tonight and having to laugh at Gordon Burns pathetic links from their final skate-boarding dog-type item into the weather: 'Mmm, I love dogs, but over now to one woman who definitely isn't a dog...' or something like that.

>Oh and in 'how the mediocre have fallen' I remember the shock of seeing ex-Simon Mayo Radio 1 breakfast show 'woman laughing in background' Diane Oxberry doing the weather on NorthWest Tonight and having to laugh at Gordon Burns pathetic links from their final skate-boarding dog-type item into the weather: 'Mmm, I love dogs, but over now to one woman who definitely isn't a dog...' or something like that.

Oi! Don't knock the Burnsmeister. Anyway, Diane Oxbury doesn't just do the weather for NWT - she forecasts it as well. And on GMR and does reports.

For a weatherman with oddles of character and charisma, check out News 24's Daniel Corbett. He is really bizairre to watch.

The first day I saw Daniel Corbett on air, the next forcast was done by Rob McElwee. Just not the same I can tell you... He looked like he was about to fall asleep :)

From the BBC Weather Online biog of Diane:
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After studying Meteorology at the Met. Office College in Berkshire, Diane became BBC North West's first on-screen weather presenter in 1995.

Previously, she was a familiar voice to Radio 1 listeners, getting her first radio job as an afternoon girl on the hugely popular Steve Wright Show. As listeners warmed to Diane's easy-going North Eastern style, she was asked to bring a cheery start to the day for the nine million listeners of Simon Mayo's Breakfast Show, where she won a Silver Sony Award.

Dianne met her cameraman husband while co-presenting children's TV show 'The 8.15' from Manchester and moved to the North West in 1993. The couple live in Cheshire with their horse, two golden retrievers and two cats.
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Personally if I could live in Cheshire with a horse,two dogs and two cats, and present the weather on North West Tonight, I'd be very happy

I take it all back. Well done Diane. I just didn't think 'local news weather reporter' was a natural progression from the seemingly lofty heights of Radio One. I doubt if nine million hear her these days.

Oh well maybe her and Dobbin and Mr Ed are living it up in Cheshire. I guess her hours are better now.

Sorry, ignore 'Mr Ed'. I thought it said 'two horses'. I over-horsed her. My apologies.

Daniel Corbett also presents some late-night weather bulletins on BBC2.

Yep. Dan the Man with the Jolly Nice Tan gets my vote. Could you imagine old Bill Giles describing a cold front as a "pesky troublemaker".

That's the weather ... for now.

>That's the weather ... for now.

(cocks head to left and winks)

He's married you know - who would have thought...?

Dan Corbett treats the weather like ballet with all his hand movements....and thats the weather....for now!

The most entertaining weather person has to be Derek Brockway off BBC1 Wales Today.
You could seriously have a whole hour of weather with this bloke as his hand gestures and body language are so funny.
Think of Gilly Goolden off Food and drink and this is how passionate Derek is about the weather.

What a pleasure - make him network as everyone out there is missing some very interesting television!!!