Weather forecasting G. Harold Noyes in 1931. The world's first televised weather forecasts, including the use of weather maps, were experimentally broadcast by the BBC in 1936. This was brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. George Cowling gave the first weather forecast while being televised in front of the map in 1954. In America, experimental television forecasts were made by James C Fidler in Cincinnati in either 1940 or 1947 on the DuMont Television Network. In the late 1970s and early 80s, John Coleman, the first weatherman on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, pioneered the use of on-screen weather satellite
Brenda Cowling "All is Safely Gathered In", "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" in "The Last Roll Call" as the WVS Lady, "The Famous Five", three episodes of "Hi-De-Hi", as a VoiceOver role as a station announcer in "Together Again", a camper in "Raffles", and a maid in "Wedding Bells", and "The Legacy of Reginald Perrin". Perhaps her most famous role was as the cook, Mrs. Lipton, in "You Rang, M'Lord?" Cowling retired in 2006 after suffering a stroke. She died on 2 October 2010, at the actors' retirement home, Denville Hall, aged 85. Brenda Cowling Brenda Rose Cowling (23 April 1925, Islington,