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 first political office was as an Alderman in the City of Toronto, where he represented Ward 7, known as "West Toronto Junction". He won three times, in the elections held in January 1949, January 1950, and December 1950. He did not run for re-election in the 1951 election. Cowling was elected in the general election in 1951, defeating incumbent Bill Temple by 2,371 votes. Cowling was re-elected in the general elections in 1955, 1959, and 1963. He served as a backbench member of the Leslie Frost and John Robarts majority Progressive Conservative governments and, during each term in office, he