Alex Deakin
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Image:Alex Deakin.jpg Image:Alex Deakin Two.jpg Alex Deakin (born North Ferriby, outside Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire) is a weatherman for the BBC, broadcasting on British television and radio.
Deakin attended South Hunsley Secondary School and went on to achieve a master's degree from the University of Birmingham in Physics with Astrophysics. He is thanked in S. F. Helson and T.J. Ponman's paper "The intragroup medium in loose groups of galaxies".
After university Deakin joined the British Meteorological (Met) Office, for which he initially worked in a number of places, including York and Bristol. In 2000 he joined the team of Met Office staffers who provide weather forecasts for the BBC. He regularly appears on television impeccably dressed and has a large fan-base among both straight women Template:Fact and gay men. [1] [2] [3]
On August 23, 2003, he appeared on the BBC/Open University's television programme Star Party, which was broadcast live from Jodrell Bank Observatory. In a number of segments during the show he gave reports on the type of weather that is experienced on Mars.
In 2004 Deakin became patron of Pitsford Hall Weather Station in Northamptonshire.
See also
External links
- BBC Weather - Alex Deakin
- Tv-Ark - Introduction to one of Deakin's broadcasts in 2005 (Real Video)
- Helson and Ponman "The intragroup medium in loose groups of galaxies" (PDF)