George Cowling stationed as a meteorological assistant with No. 4 Bomber Group RAF in Yorkshire, and worked as a forecaster for the RAF, working in Britain, Normandy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany until 1953. In 1954 he was transferred to the London Weather Centre. On 11 January 1954, at the age of 33, George Cowling gave the first televised weather forecast, from the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, at 7.55pm. The forecast was live and 'in vision', with Cowling standing in front of the weather map, using a pencil and rubber to show the weather for the next day. He informed the viewing
Thomas Cowling stars and classified the modes of non-radial oscillation of the body of a star, the basis of the field of helioseismology. Cowling became an Assistant Lecturer at Swansea in 1933. He was subsequently a lecturer at the University of Dundee (1937–38) and the University of Manchester (1938–45) before being appointed Professor at the University of Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University). In 1948 Cowling was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds in succession to Professor Selig Brodetsky. Cowling retired from his chair at Leeds in 1970 with the title Emeritus Professor. Cowling was elected a Fellow of