Peter John Gibbs (born 1958) is a former

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forecaster, who appeared regularly on

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and BBC Radio, particularly

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. He previously worked on the ''

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'' and '' BBC Breakfast''. He left the BBC on 9 December 2016.

Early life

Gibbs was born in Sunderland, and brought up in Kendal, attending Kendal Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 with an Honours degree in

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and

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. He started work at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. He worked at the British

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on the

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for two years from October 1979 where he made routine observations of the weather and helped to maintain the base. When he returned to the UK in May 1982 he joined the Met Office where he spent a year as a

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in training. He spent several years forecasting at

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in Suffolk and on the

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island in the Outer Hebrides, where he forecast for the Army missile range on

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before moving to the Norwich Weather Centre in 1989.

BBC career

His

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debut as a forecaster was with BBC Norwich's '' Look East'' in 1993, and he moved to the BBC Weather Centre to join the BBC World team in October 1997. He began forecasting for other BBC channels in November 1998 and he now

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across all BBC channels. He often hosts

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on Radio 4. He presented his final weather bulletin on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 9 December 2016.

Honours

He was made an honorary

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by the

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in July 2018.

References

External links

Peter Gibbs Biography - BBC OnlineAudio interview with Peter Gibbs on the About the BBC Blog
*BBC Weather forecast from 8 January 2003 by Peter Gibbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyg64d-tIY {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Peter BBC weather forecasters BBC World News Living people People from Kendal Alumni of Newcastle University 1958 births Mass media people from Sunderland