For almost thirty years, when the weather has really mattered to Britain, there is a fair chance Helen Willetts has been the one explaining it. A trained Met Office meteorologist with a first-class physics degree, she has presented BBC Weather since 1997, calmly guiding viewers through heatwaves, storms and snow across BBC News, BBC World…

Most weather presenters are happy to point at a map, read out the temperatures and leave the headlines to somebody else. Alex Beresford has never really been one of them. The Bristol-born ITV presenter has spent two decades climbing from the autocue desk to the national weather map, won a celebrity race across 24 countries…

Keeley Donovan is the friendly face who guides much of the North through its weather each night — a Grimsby girl who first appeared on television at just 14 and has grown into one of the BBC’s best-loved regional presenters. Best known for BBC Look North, Inside Out and Countryfile Diaries, she comes from a…

If you have watched the national weather on BBC One at teatime at almost any point in the last twenty-five years, you will know Louise Lear. A presenter with BBC Weather since 1998, she is one of the most familiar and trusted faces in British broadcasting — calm, clear and quietly witty, with a famous…