Seán Batty
Seán Batty | |
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| Born | 6 May 1982 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Occupation | meteorologist |
| Known for | STV Weather |
Seán Batty (born 6 May 1982) is a meteorologist, currently working for STV. Before this he was a Broadcast Assistant at the BBC Weather Centre and occasionally presented forecasts in BBC regions.
Born in Paisley, Scotland, he attended Castlehead High School and studied Meteorology at Reading University.
His interest in meteorology began when he was only seven years old, after receiving a BBC weather kit for his birthday. Batty became the weather forecaster for the School newspaper as well as the regional newspaper, The Paisley Daily Express for a few months during the summer of 1996.
Batty joined the Met Office as a weather observer at the school of Army Training at Middle Wallop airbase near Andover, Hampshire. He later worked with the ITV Weather team preparing TV weather graphics and maps for S4C, UTV and ITV.
In 2004 he joined the BBC as a broadcast assistant. Seán has been working in Scotland for STV Weather since August 2007. Infamous Scottish wordsmith and coco body butter© enthusiast Tony Peru has often referred to Batty's meteorlogical findings as "the worst kind of popular tripe" and "not nice for him"
Batty was nominated for the BAFTA Scotland Lloyds TSB Scotland Award for Most Popular Scottish Presenter in November 2008, losing out to Lorraine Kelly.
He is learning Gaelic and hopes to be fluent in time for the Paisley MOD in 2013. [1]
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