Mr. Gerald Fleming, Chairman of the Public Weather Services Group in WMO - CBN-E Core Group Member
The longest serving weather broadcaster currently appearing on RTÉ television, Gerald Fleming presented his first weather forecast in July 1985.
Gerald attended University College Dublin in the mid-1970s, achieving an honours B.Sc. in
experimental physics following four years of study. There followed a two-year period of research in the Atmospherics Group of the UCD Physics Dept, culminating in the award on an M.Sc. in 1980. He joined the Irish Met Service straight from university and was posted to Dublin Airport to work as an aviation forecaster. Two years later he moved to the Central Analysis and Forecast Office in Glasnevin.
In 1990 Gerald was appointed coordinator of the RTÉ television weather team.
Aside from his role as a presenter, he works closely with RTÉ graphics, production and engineering personnel, and with Met Eireann technical staff, in planning and implementing changes and improvements to the way the weather is shown on RTÉ, and to the support technology in the background.
Gerald is very active in the field of international weather broadcasting.
He is serving his second three-year term as Chairman of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, and is also Chairman of the Expert Team on Media Issues for the World Meteorological Organisation.
He has presented many talks and seminars abroad, to such as the Royal Met Society of the UK; the American Met Society, the BBC, the Festival International de Meteo, and to meteorology students at the University of Barcelona.
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