About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 133. Not illustrated. Chapters: Derek Brockway, Michael Fish, Paul Hudson, John Kettley, Des Coleman, Kirsty Mccabe, Lukwesa Burak, Ian Fergusson, Tomasz Schafernaker, George Cowling, Daniel Corbett, Laura Tobin, Carol Kirkwood, Jack Scott, Helen Willetts, Alex Deakin, Francis Wilson, Angie Phillips, Shefali Oza, Heather Stott, Kaddy Lee-Preston, Keeley Donovan, Bill Giles, Peter Gibbs, Richard Angwin, Sara Blizzard, Ian Mccaskill, Isobel Lang, Suzanne Charlton, Bert Foord, John Hammond, Darren Bett, Penny Tranter, Wendy Hurrell, Dianne Oxberry, Matt Taylor, Rob Mcelwee, Behnaz Akhgar, Sue Charles, Lisa Gallagher, Tori Lacey, Chris Fawkes, Susan Powell, Helen Young, Elizabeth Saary, Philip Avery, Jay Wynne, Nick Miller, Everton Fox, Peter Cockroft. Excerpt: Derek Brockway (born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan) is a Welsh meteorologist employed by the Met Office and based at BBC Wales in Cardiff. Brockway first attended Holton Road Primary School and then Barry Boys Comprehensive from 1979 to 1986. He later went to Coleg Morgannwg in Pontypridd, and Reading College of Technology where he received a BTEC Higher National Certificate in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics in 1993. He has also completed initial and advanced professional forecaster training courses at the Met Office College. Brockway's interest in the weather began as a boy during the long, hot summer of 1976. After A levels, he left school in 1986 and became a Civil Servant and joined the Met Office, based mainly at Cardiff Weather Centre but with spells observing the weather at Cardiff Airport, Birmingham Airport, and eight months in the Falkland Islands working closely with the Royal Air Force. After further study and promotion, he qualified as a forecaster in 1995 and was posted to Birmingham Weather Centre, broadcasting on several BBC Radio stations across the English...
