Alex Deakin

Alex Deakin (born Alexander Roy Deakin, 1974, North Ferriby, outside Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire) is a weatherman for the BBC, broadcasting on British television and radio.

Deakin appears regularly across the BBC services and is one of the main weather presenters on the BBC News at Six and BBC News at One. In addition, he joined the Weather team on BBC Breakfast in January 2007 and appears regularly on Fridays and at weekends.

Deakin attended [http://www.shs.eriding.net South Hunsley Secondary School] on "East Dale Road" in North Ferriby and went on to achieve a master's degree from the University of Birmingham in Physics with Astrophysics. He is thanked in S. F. Helson and T.J. Ponman's paper "The intragroup medium in loose groups of galaxies".fact|date=September 2008 After university, Deakin joined the British Meteorological (Met) Office, for which he initially worked in a number of places, including York and Bristol. In 2000, he joined the team of Met Office staffers who provide weather forecasts for the BBC.

On 23 August 2003, he appeared on the BBC/Open University's television programme Star Party, which was broadcast live from Jodrell Bank Observatory. In a number of segments during the show he gave reports on the type of weather that is experienced on Mars.

In 2004, Deakin became patron of Pitsford Hall weather station in Northamptonshire.

Deakin is a keen recycler and in 2006 helped promote the recycling scheme of the Yorkshire town of Hessle. [cite web
url = http://www.eastriding.gov.uk/homenews/pdf/ERNApr06.pdf
title = RECYCLING SCHEME: TV weatherman presents final blue bin to Hessle resident
accessdate = 2007-10-27
year = 2006
month = April
format = PDF
work = East Riding News
publisher = East Riding County Council]

ee also

* BBC Weather

References

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/alexdeakin_faq.shtml BBC Weather - Alex Deakin]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1974932 IMDb]
* [http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/profiles/profile.php?page=alexdeakin TV News Room]

Video clips

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipup3ogZ7Aw Recent forecast]