Helen Young (born 10 June 1969) is an English weather forecaster and television presenter. Born in

Crawley Crawley () is a large town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 106,597 at the time of th ...

, West Sussex, Young attended the

Old Palace School The Old Palace of John Whitgift School is a selective independent school for girls in Croydon, London. The Old Palace is protected as a Grade I listed building. It consists of a pre-school for the ages of 3-4, a preparatory department for the ag ...

in Croydon, where she is now a governor. She then studied geography at University of Bristol, graduating in 1990. She joined the

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as a graduate trainee in 1990. After qualifying as a weather forecaster, she started broadcasting on HTV West as a stand-in, and then appearing as a regular presenter for BBC West. In November 1993, she joined the BBC Weather Centre as the then youngest BBC weather presenter. She was the main presenter for ''The Weather Show'' and also presented the radio series ''Strange Weather Days'', and the weather series for the children's programme ''

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''. She was the lead presenter at the BBC Weather Centre from 2002 until 11 November 2005, when she left to become a full-time mother to her young family. Young is married to a British Airways pilot, and resident in Sutton in south London. Since her retirement from BBC Weather she has co-authored a children's book, ''Discovery Plus: Weather & Sky''. She also acts for the London Borough of Sutton as an Ambassador for the School Travel Plan, leading assemblies and lessons on environmental issues such as weather/climate change, to all age groups from Nursery School children up to learned adults.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Helen People from Crawley 1969 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol BBC weather forecasters People educated at the Old Palace School