A talk hosted by Smarden Local History Society with weatherman and broadcaster Ian Currie.

Weatherman and broadcaster Ian Currie will start his talk with a look at the early forecasts. How people centuries ago would notice changes in the sky and wind direction with so many working out in the open on land, in forests or the sea. People knew which clouds brought bad and good weather. Ian's talk then covers the advance of weather forecasting in the scientific age, and the beginnings of the Meteorological Office.

Ian Currie is a full-time weatherman, broadcaster, author, columnist, speaker and editor of Weather eye magazine that he established. He has contributed to and appeared on many TV and radio programmes. He has written or co-written a number of county weather books illustrating outstanding events from Dorset to Suffolk plus Essex, Hampshire, Sussex to Kent including The Surrey Weather Book and has chronicled in his Book ‘Frosts, Freezes and Fairs’ the great freezes on the Thames and other UK rivers which was featured on BBC Radio 4. He has also written several books on Weather Lore and how one can forecast the weather locally. 

He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and can be heard regularly on BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex with forecasts for gardeners and growers. He also forecasts for several vineyards in Sussex, Kent and Surrey and correctly forecast the great storm of October 1987 in his weather column at the time for The Surrey Mirror group of papers.

We hope you will join us for another fascinating Smarden History talk. The Charter Hall October 17th from 6:45 pm.

Smarden Local History Society

The History of Weather Forecasting

by Ian Currie

The Charter Hall
7.30 p.m. Thursday 17th October
Join us from 6.45 p.m. for Wine, Coffee & Teas