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Daniel Corbett is an English broadcast

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, who worked for the

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and the

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for many years until May 2011. He joined the

and

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Centre in 1997, after beginning his career in the

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. In May 2011, Corbett made his final BBC weather report prior to taking up a new post in

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with the

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. He is particularly popular with television viewers because of his enthusiastic weather presentations and his humorous slogans.

The BBC (1997–2011)

In 1997 Corbett was invited to join the

and the

...
to help launch the new

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. He 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

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in 1998, appearances on

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and

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and broadcasts across the BBC's network of radio stations. In 2000 Corbett returned to the US, where he freelanced as a meteorologist for a number of TV stations across the southern states, including KRIV in

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, Texas. In 2001 he moved to

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, where he worked at

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as a weather forecaster and feature reporter. Corbett spent three months back at the

Centre in summer 2003 presenting forecasts on

BBC World BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and S ...

, before returning to the US. He returned to the UK,

...
and

in 2004. Since 2005, Corbett has presented forecasts for the BBC's coverage of the

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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

live from the floodwaters in

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. His experience of working in the US means Corbett was often called upon to comment on severe weather events like

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s and tornadoes on various BBC News programmes and the

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channel. On 17 May 2011 he announced on BBC Radio 5 Live that he was leaving the BBC to work in

for the Met Service. He made his final 5 Live forecast on 18 May 2011.

Met Service and One News (2011–present)

After three years in New Zealand, he made his final Met Service forecast on 9 May 2014. In September 2014, it was announced that he would be joining the ONE News weather team at TVNZ. He made his first weather presentation on TVNZ, where he currently works, on 25 September 2014.

References

External links

Daniel Corbett biography

Daniel Corbett weather broadcast from 25 September 1998
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