Tomasz Schafernaker
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Tomasz Schafernaker | |
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| Born | January 8, 1979 |
| Occupation | Meteorologist for BBC Weather |
Tomasz Schafernaker (born 1979) is a BBC Weather forecaster. He regularly presents the weather on the BBC News at One, and often fronts the BBC's flagship forecast for the week ahead on Sunday mornings. He also appears on BBC World News, BBC News, BBC Red Button and BBC Radio.
Early life and career
Tomasz was born in Gdańsk, Poland, and attended school both in his native Poland and in the UK. He was educated at the independent school St. John's College, Southsea, in Portsmouth, where he took A-levels in mathematics, physics and art, followed by the University of Reading where he gained a BSc (Hons) in meteorology.
He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000, working as a broadcast assistant. He spent some time giving BBC regional forecasts across the UK, and presented on BBC World during the winter of 2003.
During 2004 and 2005 Tomasz studied at the Met Office college in Exeter and trained as a forecaster for aviation. He also worked for a time at ITV, as well as the London Weather Centre. Schafernaker rejoined the BBC in 2006.
Schafernaker caused outrage amongst Scottish BBC viewers in February 2007 when referring to the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles as "nowheresville" in a weather bulletin aired on both BBC One and the BBC News. He later made an apology. On 19 May 2008, Schafernaker confirmed live on air on BBC News that his surname is Austrian.
On Christmas Day 2008 during the afternoon Radio 1 weather forecast the weather presenter let slip that Tomasz's nickname at the BBC is "Shufflepants".
On 25 June 2009, during the 12:58 pm weather forecast on BBC Radio 4, Schafernaker tripped up over his script words of "night", "showers", "mud" and "site" and ended up forecasting a "muddy shite" for Glastonbury instead of a "muddy site". He promptly lost his composure, laughing intermittently through the rest of his forecast, whilst trying to continue.[1][2] The duty announcer pronounced, "… you made it — well done."
Pesonal Life
In January 2010, he caused some controversy by appearing barechested on the cover of the supplement Active of the well-known UK magazine Attitude.[3][4]
References
External links
- Tomasz Schafernaker, BBC Weather
- [1], [Blog about Tomasz Schafernaker]