Manali Lukha is a British weather forecaster for

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. She is Head of

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. Manali Lukha has been working for the

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for 10 years and was recently promoted to manage the Met Office Media Team where she provides weather services to

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and

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. In this role, Manali manages the daily production of weather bulletins for ITN and she occasionally presents the

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Weekend Weather. This enables her to address the unit as both the manager and a user. In 2011 and September 2013, Manali was seen as a relief forecaster for STV. With a degree in

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and

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followed by a

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, Manali joined the Met Office as part of a graduate recruitment scheme. Starting out as a

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, Manali developed software now used by Football Association (FA) in determining weather conditions for matches. Keen to pursue weather from a media perspective she was recruited to the Met Office Media Centre in 2000. In this role she has secured a number of key contracts for the Met Office. On 28 September 2012 she presented her final weather forecast ahead of her maternity leave.Manali's weather blog
ITV London, 28 September 2012,

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She returned to ITV London on 14 January 2013. , she appears across all ITV regions as an occasional relief weather presenter. , she has also been seen as a relief weather presenter for the ITV National Weather.

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* * British television presenters ITV Weather Living people British people of Tamil descent 1975 births {{climate-bio-stub