Gerald Fleming

Gerald Fleming (born 20 November 1957) is an Irish former meteorologist and weather presenter. He joined Met Éireann in 1980 and worked as co-ordinator of the RTÉ Television weather team. He served as Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann until his retirement in December 2017. He is now involved with the World Bank and travels all over the world helping other countries improve their weather stations.

Early and personal life He was born in County Wexford, where he still lives today. He attended a local Christian Brothers school. He is married to Mary Duggan, an architect, and has three children and one grandson.

He has been involved with the Wexford Swimming Club, Leinster Swimming, and the Wexford Arts Centre.

Career Fleming attended University College Dublin where he studied for four years. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Experimental Physics. In 1980 he achieved a Master of Science following two years of research in the Atmospherics Group of the UCD Physics Department.

He gave his first weather forecast in July 1985. In 1990, he was made co-ordinator of weather at RTÉ Television.

He has served as Chairperson of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology and co-chair of the First World Conference on Broadcast Meteorology. In that position he representatived Met Éireann to the media. He was also a regular contributor to Mooney on RTÉ Radio 1. He currenly works with the World Bank helping the international community improve weather stations. He is the treasurer of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM).