BBC Weather map filled the entire screen, with an off-screen announcer reading the next day's weather. On 11 January 1954, the first in-vision weather forecast was broadcast, presented by George Cowling. In an in-vision the narrator stands in front of the map. At that point, the maps were drawn by hand in the London Weather Centre, before being couriered across London. The forecasts were presented by the same person who had composed them, and had relatively low accuracy. The London Weather Centre which opened in 1959 took the responsibility for the national radio weather broadcasts. Radio forecasters were chosen by a BBC
Alfred Hozack Cowling served on an average of eight Standing Committees. He was defeated in the 1967 provincial general election, coming in third place and losing to Ontario's Chief Coroner, the very outspoken Morton Shulman. Alfred Hozack Cowling Alfred Hozack "Alf" Cowling (October 15, 1911 – November 18, 1996) was a Canadian politician, who represented High Park in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1971 as a Progressive Conservative member. Cowling was born in Toronto. He was one of three sons born to Eleanor May Hozack and Alfred Homer Cowling. He worked as an insurance salesman and, eventually became an executive