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
Michael Cowling in 1993. From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the Australian Mathematical Society. After stepping down as the Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW, he moved to the United Kingdom to take up the Mason Chair at the University of Birmingham. He returned to UNSW in 2010. Michael Cowling Michael George Cowling is an Australian pure mathematician who was born in Melbourne in 1949. He gained a BSc (Hons) (1971) from the Australian National University and a PhD (1974) from Flinders University. After rising to the rank of professor at the University of Genoa, he