Weather Station & Barometer
Unique weather station with barometric pressure, sunrise, sunset and moon phases for your location.
Complete Weather Station
Oregon Scientific WMR86 provides all the weather data you need, without PC connection.
Vantage Vue - Bundle
The Vantage Vue weather station offers Davis wireless performance with a simplified sensor package.
Weather Station with 7 day History
Station providing an easy to read display of Barometric Pressure, Forecast & Temperature.
Complete Weather Station
The WS1600 provides all the weather data you need. Includes wind & rain readings and much more.
Anywhere Weather Basic
Track temp/humid at home from anywhere in the world on smartphones or online from your pc or tablet!
Anywhere Weather Station
Track weather at home from anywhere in the world on smartphones or online from your pc or tablet!
Wireless Forecast Station (W)
This new BAR206 'white version' includes a forecast & in/out temp all on an easy-to-read LCD.
Vantage Vue - Bundle
The Vantage Vue weather station offers Davis wireless performance with a simplified sensor package.
Envoy and ISS - Cabled
Cabled professional systems with an Envoy receiver instead of display console.
Vantage Pro2 Plus FARS - Bundle
Wireless weather station with additional Solar Energy, UV sensors & Fan Assisted Radiation Shield.
Vantage Pro2 - Cabled - Bundle
Cabled weather station to display and record all the basic weather information.
Gill Charles
Born in Nottingham in April 1950, Gill led a fairly ordinary life albeit growing up with a musical and literary background; links to the Royal Navy were ever present though, so it is not surprising that at the age of eighteen she joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service as a Radio Operator (Morse). There followed several happy years, both in this country and overseas, leaving the service with the rate of Petty Officer Wren Radio Supervisor (Morse) on the birth of her first child.
Settled in Lincolnshire, where she still resides, Gill concentrated for a while, on bringing up three children and continuing her interest in Guiding before training to be a Basic Skills lecturer in Further and Adult Education. As an interest Gill began to look into tracing her family history and this led to a far more in-depth interest in research and other writing related projects, mainly of a non-fiction and historical nature for the local newspaper. Along with a lifelong interest in singing this ensured she was never short of something to do.
Whilst serving Gill met and married her husband, Arthur and they have three, now very grown-up, children and two grandchildren. It is due to her husband and his job in the Royal Navy as a Meteorological Observer that she became involved with the weather! In 2005, Gill’s husband and another ex RN Met Observer founded Cloud Observers- an Association for retired Royal Navy Meteorologists. With Gill as secretary (reasoning – because she can write!!) life seemed all set to become fairly busy; then came the request to write a book on the history of the old RN Met Branch, now disbanded; a carrot just too hard to resist, with its promise of in-depth research. This has, of course, led to the writing of other articles, archiving documents and photographs as well as other old weather instruments. There is never a spare moment to be had and Gill really does wonder how she ever had time to go out to work!
Dave Wiseman
Brought up in Portsmouth, Plymouth and Falmouth, Dave was always particularly close to our maritime climate and says it was perhaps why he developed an early interest in the effects of the weather and in particular how it effects peoples' lives. By the time he was fifteen he was regularly submitting his monthly weather readings to the Climatological Observers Link (COL).
After joining the Met Office he worked in the vastly different environments of Kew Observatory, London and Heathrow Airport. During the eighties he left the Met Office to concentrate on developing a media and educational side to his career, gaining both a BA in TV and Media Communication and an MA Hons in Information and Communication Technology in Education.
In 2002 he started his own weather company Wiseweather (www.wiseweather.co.uk) and has been a regular contributor to various weather forums for over ten years now, having produced a wide variety of forecasts for the 'UKWeatherworld' site and others over the last decade.
For the last few years he has worked for Weather Front Ltd as both an educational advisor & contributor and conducted many successful educational Weather Days on its premises.
Michael Fish MBE DSc FRMetS
Britain’s (and possibly the World’s!) longest-serving TV weather forecaster, Michael Fish was born in Eastbourne in 1944, and educated at Eastbourne College. On joining the Meteorological Office in November 1962, his first posting was to Gatwick Airport. In 1965 he transferred, on promotion, to the Met Office headquarters in Bracknell to work on research projects. Between 1966 and 1968, while based at the London Weather Centre, he took a sandwich course in Applied Physics at the City University.
Michael Fish’s broadcasting career began in 1971 when he started forecasting for BBC Radio and in January 1974 he became part of BBC Television’s weather team.
Made famous by the ‘Hurricane’ in 1987, he was compulsorily retired from the Met Office in 2004 but is still presenting the weather on BBC Southeast. He has made many appearances on television and radio shows, ranging from light entertainment to factual programmes. Recently he tried his hand at acting, touring with “The Play What I Wrote” and received rave reviews. He has also been involved in the training of television weathermen in various African countries. He has written numerous articles on travel and weather, has acted as a consultant for several meteorological books and is increasingly in demand as an informative and entertaining after-dinner speaker and lecturer. He is currently preparing for the 20th anniversary of the ‘Great Storm’ by way of books, TV and radio programmes.
In 1985 the punk group Rachel and Nicki released a record dedicated to him called "I wish, I wish he was like Michael Fish". This was featured on the 'Wogan' programme but did not reach the charts. Some years later he did reach the 'Top Ten' when featured on the 'John Kettley is a Weatherman' single.
In December 1996, Michael was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the City University, London, and in August 1997, he was granted the Freedom of the City of London. Michael was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in June 2004 and in July 2005 he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Exeter University.
In March 2004 Michael won the award for Best Weather Presenter at the TRIC (Television and Radio Industries Club) Awards and was declared a ‘National Treasure’ by the National Press.
Several years ago he was voted both the 'Worst Dressed' and the 'Best Dressed' man on television. More recently he has been acknowledged 4 times as 'Tie-man of the Year' in recognition of his ‘trade mark’ Fish motive ties, which he always wears.
He is Patron of several charities, including Age Concern.
Michael, who lives in Middlesex, is married to Susan and has two daughters, Alison and Nicola. A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, his hobbies include travel, food and wine and being a grumpy old man.
Although he "retired" from National TV in 2005 Michael likes to keep his hand in. So in amongst his many other interests he finds the time to work in broadcast meteorology on BBC South East TV from Royal Tunbridge Wells.
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