Daniel Corbett Has Left Bbc

[Weather-history]

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.

[Rainy]

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.

[95 Degrees]

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.

[Dorsetbred]

Another one bites the dust.

His interesting style will be missed.

[Kiwi]

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??

Edited May 22, 2011 by Kiwi

[Snowmadsam]

I wish him well

[MP-R]

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. :o Well good luck to him!

[Somerset Squall]

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.

[feb1991blizzard]

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.

[osmposm]

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.

[J07]

Here's one of Dan Corbett's "Weekend Weather" videos for the NZ MetService:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVh_6CmY98Y

(Quite a dramatic weekend coming up).

[Coast]

I'm glad to see Dan is settled, but where is Rob McElwee now? Working behind the scenes?