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BBC Weather is the BBC's department in charge of preparing and broadcasting weather forecasts. [1]

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Alex Deakin

Alexander Roy "Alex" Deakin (born 1974 in North Ferriby) is a weatherman for the Met Office.

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Alina Jenkins

Alina Jenkins (born Eastleigh, Hampshire) is an English BBC Weather presenter and radio presenter on BBC Radio Solent, and weather presenter on BBC South Today and Points West.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae), sometimes referred to as polar lights, northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in the high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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Barbara Edwards (meteorologist)

Barbara Edwards is a meteorologist, who became the BBC's first female television weather presenter in January 1974.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bert Foord

Herbert ("Bert") Vernon Foord (22 December, 1930, Appleby, Westmorland – 31 July, 2001, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire) was an English meteorologist and popular BBC weather forecaster during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Bill Giles (meteorologist)

William George Giles OBE (born 18 November 1939) is a retired British weather forecaster and television presenter.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Broadcasting House

Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London.

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Carol Kirkwood

Carol Kirkwood (born 29 May 1962) is a Scottish weather presenter, trained by the Met Office, and employed by the BBC, in particular on BBC Breakfast and Victoria Derbyshire.

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Chris Fawkes

Chris Fawkes is a BBC Weather forecaster.

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Chroma key

Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects/post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range).

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Cloud cover

'Cloud cover' (also known as 'cloudiness', 'cloudage', or 'cloud amount') refers to the fraction of the sky obscured by clouds when observed from a particular location.

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Color blindness

Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.

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Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, films, television programs, shorts, commercials, videos, and simulators.

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Daniel Corbett

Daniel Corbett is an English broadcast meteorologist, who worked for the Met Office and the BBC for many years until May 2011.

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Darren Bett

Darren Victor Bett (born 28 November 1968 in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire) is an English weather forecaster for the BBC, broadcasting on television and radio.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Elizabeth Saary

Elizabeth Saary is a BBC Weather forecaster, appearing regularly on BBC Radio, the BBC News channel, BBC One and BBC World News.

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Everton Fox

Everton Fox (born 1964) is a British weather presenter, currently working for Al Jazeera English.

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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.

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Francis Wilson (meteorologist)

Francis Alfred Wilson, FRMetS, CMet (Chartered Meteorologist), (born 27 February 1949) is an English weather forecaster who was a presenter and the Head of Weather on Sky News, from 1993 until 2010.

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George Cowling

George Cowling (2 March 1920 – 24 December 2009) was the BBC's first television weatherman.

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Google Play

Google Play (previously Android Market) is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google.

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Great Storm of 1987

The Great Storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties in England, France and the Channel Islands as a severe depression in the Bay of Biscay moved northeast.

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Helen Willetts

Helen Sarah Willetts (born 10 February 1972) is a meteorologist on the BBC.

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Helen Young

Helen Young (born 10 June 1969) is an English weather forecaster and television presenter.

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Hurricane Floyd (1987)

Hurricane Floyd was the only hurricane to make landfall in the United States in the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Ian McCaskill

Ian McCaskill (born John Robertson McCaskill; 28 July 1938 – 10 December 2016) was a BBC weatherman.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

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IPad

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

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Isobel Lang

Isobel Dinah Lang (born 16 July 1970 in Lincoln) is a weather presenter for Sky News.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Jack Scott (meteorologist)

John "Jack" Scott (9 November 1923, Ferryhill, County Durham – 11 November 2008) was a British television weatherman who appeared for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 during a 20-year broadcasting career.

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Jay Wynne

Jay Wynne (born c.1968) is a BBC Weather forecaster, appearing mainly on BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4, BBC World and BBC One.

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Jim Bacon (weather forecaster)

James Dale Bacon (born 22 June 1950) is a British television weather forecaster, who appeared on national forecasts (BBC1) in the 1980s, with his distinct East Anglian accent.

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John Hammond (weather forecaster)

John Michael Hammond (born 9 April 1966) is a meteorologist and an English weather forecaster for the BBC.

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John Kettley

John Graham Kettley (born 11 July 1952 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an English freelance weatherman.

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Kirsty McCabe

Kirsty McCabe is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter at Sky News, and was formerly the Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London.

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List of iOS devices

This is a list and comparison of devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that run a Unix-like operating system named iOS, often colloquially referred to simply as iDevices.

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Local news

In journalism, local news refers to coverage of events, by the news, in a local context that would not be an interest of another locality, or otherwise be of national or international scope.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Louise Lear

Louise Lear is a BBC Weather presenter, appearing on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio.

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Maritime and Coastguard Agency

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom working to prevent the loss of lives at sea and is responsible for implementing British and international maritime law and safety policy.

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Marker pen

A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt.

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Matt Taylor (meteorologist)

Matt Taylor (born 3 June 1976 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is an English meteorologist and BBC Weather presenter.

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Met Office

The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office) is the United Kingdom's national weather service.

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MeteoGroup

MeteoGroup is a private weather organisation based in Europe, with forecasting offices in 17 countries and customers worldwide.

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MetService

Meteorological Service of New Zealand Limited (MetService) was established as a state-owned enterprise in 1992.

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Michael Fish

Michael Fish, (born 27 April 1944 in Eastbourne, Sussex) is a British weather forecaster, best known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office, from 1974 to 2004.

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National Severe Weather Warning Service

The National Severe Weather Warning Service (shortened to NSWWS) is a service provided by the Met Office in the United Kingdom.

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Nick Miller (weather forecaster)

Nicholas James "Nick" Miller (born 8 January 1970) is a British weather forecaster who is working for the BBC.

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Nina Ridge

Nina Ridge is a British weather forecaster on the BBC.

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North–South divide in the United Kingdom

In Great Britain, the term North–South divide refers to the economic and cultural differences between Southern England and the rest of Great Britain (Northern England, The Midlands, Wales and Scotland).

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Penny Tranter

Penny Tranter was a BBC Weather weather presenter from 1992 to 2008.

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Peter Cockroft

Peter Cockroft (born 13 April 1957 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire) is an English weather forecaster.

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Peter Gibbs (weather forecaster)

Peter Gibbs (born 1958 in Sunderland) is a former BBC Weather forecaster, who appeared regularly on BBC News, BBC World News and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four.

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Philip Avery

Philip Avery (born 15 November 1959) is a British meteorologist and BBC Weather forecaster.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Richard Edgar

Richard Edgar is a national ITV and former BBC weatherman from Brighouse.

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Rob McElwee

Robert "Rob" McElwee (born 21 January 1961, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) was BBC Weather's longest-serving weather forecaster since the departure of Michael Fish.

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Royal Meteorological Society

The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science.

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Royal Television Society

The Royal Television Society, or RTS, is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future.

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Sarah Keith-Lucas

Sarah Dorothy Keith-Lucas (born 12 February 1982) is an English meteorologist, and a BBC weather presenter on BBC One.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite imagery (or spaceborne photography) are images of Earth or other planets collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Shetland

Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.

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Shipping Forecast

The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles.

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Simon King (meteorologist)

Flying Officer Simon King is an English meteorologist and Royal Air Force officer, who currently presents on the BBC.

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Snow

Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.

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South East England

South East England is the most populous of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.

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Stav Danaos

Stavros "Stav" Danaos is an English broadcast journalist and meteorologist of Greek Cypriot descent.

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Susan Powell (weather forecaster)

Susan Powell is a weather reporter for the BBC.

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Suzanne Charlton

Suzanne L. Charlton (born 1962) is a British BBC weather forecaster and daughter of footballer Bobby Charlton.

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Tomasz Schafernaker

Tomasz Schafernaker (born 8 January 1979) is a Polish meteorologist for BBC Weather.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Weather forecasting

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time.

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Weather map

A weather map displays various meteorological features across a particular area at a particular point in time and has various symbols which all have specific meanings.

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White Christmas (weather)

A white Christmas is a Christmas with the presence of snow: either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, depending on local tradition.

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Wind chill

Wind-chill or windchill, (popularly wind chill factor) is the lowering of body temperature due to the passing-flow of lower-temperature air.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Weather

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