Daniel Corbett

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Daniel Corbett is a British Broadcast Meteorologist, working for the Met Office and the BBC. He regularly appears on BBC ONE, BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button, BBC Four, BFBS TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live. He is one of the main weather forecasters on the BBC News at Six, and has also appeared on the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten

He first joined the Met Office and BBC Weather Centre in 1997, after beginning his career in the United States.

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[edit] Early life and career before 1997

Daniel Corbett was born in Dagenham, Greater London, and spent his early life living in Billericay, Essex, before moving with his family to New York in 1974. Corbett grew up in Smithtown, New York, where he graduated from high school in 1985. He earned his BSc degree in Meteorology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1990, and moved on to work for Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. in New York and Houston, Texas. Here he undertook weather forecasting for corporate clients, energy companies, the aviation industry and ski resorts amongst others.

Corbett's television career began in 1995, when he worked for WCFT-TV in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He then moved onto KWTX-TV in Waco, Texas where his English accent proved a big hit with viewers. While he was working for KWTX, one of America's biggest tornadoes, an F5, hit close to Waco, and Dan made a name for himself by correctly predicting that the tornado would, contrary to earlier forecasts, miss the city itself.

[edit] Career since 1997

In 1997 Corbett was invited to join the Met Office and the BBC to help launch the brand new BBC News 24. Corbett was a key member of the weather team and presented the first ever weather forecast on the channel. He also appeared on a range of other BBC output, including forecasts for BBC Breakfast News in 1998, appearances on BBC One and BBC Two and broadcasts across the BBC's network of radio stations.

In 2000 Corbett returned to the USA, where he freelanced as a meteorologist for a number of TV stations across the southern states, including KRIV-TV in Houston, Texas. In 2001 he moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he worked at KGUN-TV as a weather forecaster and feature reporter.

Corbett spent three months back at the BBC Weather Centre in Summer 2003 presenting forecasts on BBC World News, before returning to the US. However, he returned to the UK, BBC and Met Office permanently in 2004.

Since 2005, Corbett has presented forecasts for the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships live from the courtside for two weeks each summer.

In July 2007 Corbett appeared regularly on BBC News covering severe flooding in southern Britain. He also presented several forecasts BBC One live from the floodwaters in Gloucestershire.

His experience of working in the US means Corbett is often called upon to comment on severe weather events like hurricanes and tornados on various BBC News programmes and the BBC News channel.

[edit] Forecast style

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Corbett is one of the most popular and well-known forecasters on the BBC,[citation needed] having developed something of a cult following due to his personalised style of weather presentation, including his trademark 'point-and-nod' sign-off: "That's the weather... for now".[citation needed] His style is quite different from that employed by most other British broadcasting meteorologists.[citation needed]


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