Philip Eden

(Geoffrey) Philip Eden FRMetS (born 1951) is a leading British weather journalist and weather historian.[1][2]

Birmingham University

Philip Eden graduated from Birmingham University with a BA in Geography in 1972.[3]

Eden was chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005. He has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph newspapers, and currently has a weekly column in the latter. Eden writes weekly features and monthly look-backs for WeatherOnline. He is author of two books on the history of British weather.[4][5]

Philip Eden was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2007 to 2009.[6][7] Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000. The prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through a paper or papers, or other outstanding service to Weather, in the preceding five years that has furthered the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography.[8] He has been Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust since 2007.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/barometer/guest-articles/philip-eden
  2. ↑ https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/philip-eden-on-easter-weather/
  3. ↑ http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/alumni/TheDifference6.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/philip-eden/By-Philip-Eden.htm
  5. ↑ https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/philip-eden-on-easter-weather/
  6. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/7023899/Ever-wished-you-could-fire-the-Met-Office.html
  7. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12042733
  8. ↑ http://www.rmets.org/our-activities/awards/gordon-manley-weather-prize
  9. ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45025
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