Matt Taylor (meteorologist)

Matt Taylor (born 3 June 1976 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is an English meteorologist and BBC Weather presenter.

Matt Taylor
OccupationWeather presenter 
Employer

Early life

Taylor has a degree in City and Regional Planning from Cardiff University where he studied before working for a local council in Lincolnshire. In the next couple of years, Taylor took physics and mathematics courses through the Open University in order to improve his chances of gaining a place on the weather-forecasting programme at the Met Office College.

Broadcasting career

Having worked as a Met Office meteorologist since 1998, Matt joined the BBC Weather team[1] in 2004, originally working at the Cardiff weather centre. He now broadcasts across a range of BBC outlets, including BBC One, BBC News, BBC World News, Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 4 and 5 Live. He's a regular weather forecaster on BBC Breakfast,[2] mainly at the weekends and often forecasts for Radio 4's Today.[3]

References
  1. Heart stopping moment for BBC weatherman
  2. https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1062167/BBC-News-Matt-Taylor-Louise-Minchin-Jon-Kay-weather-forecast-BBC-Breakfast-video-watch
  3. Robb, Shawn. "Selectors". www.weather-photo.org. Retrieved 2017-12-23.


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