A quarter of a century on from the first appearance of a weather forecaster on television, the great and good of the BBC's weather presenters through the years gathered to celebrate 25 years of TV forecasting. What is the collective noun for a group of weather presenters? A cloud? A warm front?

Anyway, it's all jolly good fun, with the very first presenter, George Cowling, recreating that first weather report in as authentic as possible 1954 style, before the assembled meteorologists spoke warmly about their time in front of the weather boards, concluding in a wonderfully appropriate choice for a birthday sing-a-long.

Featured weather presenters included: George Cowling, Tom Clifton, Philip McAllen, David 'Dixie' Dean, John Parry, Danny Armour, Bill Bruce, Trevor 'the weather' Baker, Norman Ellis, Tom Kelly, Bert Ford, Graham Parker, Peter Walker, Don Maunder, Jack Scott, Keith Best, Barbara Edwards, Michael Fish, Bill Giles and Ian McCaskill.

Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 10 January 1979.





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