I was surprised to read this, seems to have slipped under the radar. I thought Daniel Corbett was eccentric with his presentation style. Apparently, he is going to work for the New Zealand Met Office. I wish him well.
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Daniel Corbett Has Left Bbc
Started by Mr_Data, May 22 2011 15:22
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 16:04
Yes, he revealed this on Radio Five one morning last week, in a brief interview with the programme presenter after one of his weather forecasts.
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 16:22
Sad news, he was my favorite BBC forecaster with his to the point but very amusing descriptive details about the weather.
wish him well at his new job in NZ.
wish him well at his new job in NZ.
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 17:19
Another one bites the dust.
His interesting style will be missed.
His interesting style will be missed.
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 17:53
Is he going to be presenting??
Next time I'm out I'll look out for his pronunciation of Maori placenames ...could be interesting!
Never really took to his style myself, especially his adversion to cold weather!! .....and he's heading into the NZ winter....a posting to Invercargill perhaps??
Next time I'm out I'll look out for his pronunciation of Maori placenames ...could be interesting!
Never really took to his style myself, especially his adversion to cold weather!! .....and he's heading into the NZ winter....a posting to Invercargill perhaps??
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 18:27
I wish him well 
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 20:43
This is very sad news. That's 2 of my favourite weather presenters gone in a space of a few months - Rob McElwee and now Daniel Corbett. 
Well good luck to him!
Well good luck to him!
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2012:
Highest Max: 20.0C (28/03)
Lowest Max: -00.1C (03/02)
Highest Min: 08.1C (08/04)
Lowest Min: -07.8C (03/02)
Total Rain: 283.8mm
Wettest Day: 28.2mm (30/04)
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Snowlie Days: 3 (05/02) / (10/02) / (11/02)
Thunder Days: 4 (17/03) / (12/04) / (19/04) / (25/04)
Thunderstorms: 2 (17/03) / (12/04)
2012:
Highest Max: 20.0C (28/03)
Lowest Max: -00.1C (03/02)
Highest Min: 08.1C (08/04)
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 23:30
That's a shame. The second presenter to go who has a quirky, and humerous presenting style. The other being Rob McElwee. These two really brought some fun into the forecasts, but at the same time delivered the forecasts to a detailed and high standard.
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Posted 22 May 2011 - 23:47
Somerset Squall, on 22 May 2011 - 23:30 , said:
That's a shame. The second presenter to go who has a quirky, and humerous presenting style. The other being Rob McElwee. These two really brought some fun into the forecasts, but at the same time delivered the forecasts to a detailed and high standard.
I am not dissing Dan Corbett but to me Rob McElwee was the last of the giants to go, and in many ways was the transitional weatherman from your old school forecasters Micheal Fish, Ian Mccaskill and John Kettley in that at the time he was young and wore modern clothes but still had that aura about him in the sense that you knew by the terminology that he used that he loved meteorology, thats not to say that the current BBC team dont as from what i am lead to belive, they have all studied meteorology to degree standard, however you could be forgiven for thinking nowadays that some of them are just presenting the weather because of their good looks and white teeth and are just reading off a script.
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Posted 23 May 2011 - 00:07
It's funny how personal these things are, despite us all being weather buffs: while I adored Rob McElwee, I couldn't bear Dan Corbett!
Rob always seemed wonderfully cool, calm and unhurried, with time to slow right down at the end, and deliver some measured last word of summary or promise with a twinkle in his eye. Dan, by contrast, seemed rushed and even positively manic at times, full of rather forced 'user-friendly' asides about "make sure you put the the brolly in the car" or "better get the shovel out of the garden shed"; and he was a prime offender (perhaps even the inventor) in using those overcomplicated and now very overworn phrases "by the dawn period", "during the overnight period", "around the teatime period", etc, instead of just "by dawn", "overnight" and "around teatime".
I can't say I'll miss him much......but each to his own, and I wish him nothing but well. He was certainly more individual than most of the current crop.
Rob always seemed wonderfully cool, calm and unhurried, with time to slow right down at the end, and deliver some measured last word of summary or promise with a twinkle in his eye. Dan, by contrast, seemed rushed and even positively manic at times, full of rather forced 'user-friendly' asides about "make sure you put the the brolly in the car" or "better get the shovel out of the garden shed"; and he was a prime offender (perhaps even the inventor) in using those overcomplicated and now very overworn phrases "by the dawn period", "during the overnight period", "around the teatime period", etc, instead of just "by dawn", "overnight" and "around teatime".
I can't say I'll miss him much......but each to his own, and I wish him nothing but well. He was certainly more individual than most of the current crop.
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Posted 23 July 2011 - 01:55
Here's one of Dan Corbett's "Weekend Weather" videos for the NZ MetService:
(Quite a dramatic weekend coming up).
(Quite a dramatic weekend coming up).
NZ in 2010:
Max: 36C
Min: -12C
Max Wind Gust: 134 mph (!)
Ian McKellen on NZ: "Everything here is more magnificent. The landscape is familiar...but the vegetation is unusual and the mountains seem so much sharper. If you're looking for what the poets used to call 'the awful' - a sense of awe - that is what you find in New Zealand. And it's wild in a way that England isn't wild."
Lonely Planet on NZ: "few countries on this lonely planet as diverse, unspoiled and utterly, utterly photogenic" ; "the sun kicks like a mule".
New Zealand is the land of glaciers, rainforests, fjords, tussock plains, highlands, tablelands, mangroves, palms, golden sand beaches, snow capped mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind, merino sheep, wine, olives, scorching sun, incessant rain, endless drought, flightless birds, dramatic coastlines, and the population of Scotland in a country the size of the UK. You need to visit. :)
Max: 36C
Min: -12C
Max Wind Gust: 134 mph (!)
Ian McKellen on NZ: "Everything here is more magnificent. The landscape is familiar...but the vegetation is unusual and the mountains seem so much sharper. If you're looking for what the poets used to call 'the awful' - a sense of awe - that is what you find in New Zealand. And it's wild in a way that England isn't wild."
Lonely Planet on NZ: "few countries on this lonely planet as diverse, unspoiled and utterly, utterly photogenic" ; "the sun kicks like a mule".
New Zealand is the land of glaciers, rainforests, fjords, tussock plains, highlands, tablelands, mangroves, palms, golden sand beaches, snow capped mountains, volcanoes, earthquakes, wind, merino sheep, wine, olives, scorching sun, incessant rain, endless drought, flightless birds, dramatic coastlines, and the population of Scotland in a country the size of the UK. You need to visit. :)
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Posted 23 July 2011 - 08:15
I'm glad to see Dan is settled, but where is Rob McElwee now? Working behind the scenes?
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