King joined the Met Office in July 2005 as a forecaster in the Mobile Met Unit, a specialist unit of forecasters who are also sponsored reserve officers in the RAF. After training with both organisations, he was posted as Flying Officer to RAF Benson. He was then posted to operations in Iraq.[2]
On his return, King was assigned to BBC Weather in August 2008,[2] presenting across the entire BBC News output, as well as on BBC World. He still undertakes assignments for the RAF, and was deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan in 2010.
simon, king, meteorologist, simon, king, english, meteorologist, royal, force, officer, currently, presents, where, resident, weather, correspondent, radio, live, breakfast, simon, kingbornroyston, hertfordshire, englandoccupationweather, presenteryears, activ. Simon King is an English meteorologist and Royal Air Force RAF officer who currently presents on the BBC where he is the resident weather correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast Simon KingBornRoyston Hertfordshire EnglandOccupationweather presenterYears active2008 presentEmployerBBCKnown forBBC North West Tonight BBC Breakfast BBC Radio 5 LiveTelevisionBBC North West Tonight The One Show BBC Breakfast After growing up in Royston Hertfordshire where he attended the Roysia Middle School and the Meridian School 1 he graduated with a BSc in Environmental Science of the Earth and Atmosphere and then an MSc in Applied Meteorology both from the University of Reading 2 King joined the Met Office in July 2005 as a forecaster in the Mobile Met Unit a specialist unit of forecasters who are also sponsored reserve officers in the RAF After training with both organisations he was posted as Flying Officer to RAF Benson He was then posted to operations in Iraq 2 On his return King was assigned to BBC Weather in August 2008 2 presenting across the entire BBC News output as well as on BBC World He still undertakes assignments for the RAF and was deployed to Camp Bastion Afghanistan in 2010 King s hobbies include snowboarding and wakeboarding References edit Simon s dream job as weatherman The Royston Crow 16 November 2008 Retrieved 30 September 2015 a b c Simon King BBC Weather 17 December 2009 Retrieved 28 May 2010 External links editBBC Weather bio nbsp This article about a British scientist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Simon King meteorologist amp oldid 1194540928, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
