Jack Scott

John Scott (9 November 1923 – 11 November 2008) was an English television weatherman who appeared for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 during a 20-year broadcasting career. He worked for the Met Office in 1941, working at Royal Air Force bases during the Second World War. Scott did aerological forecasting before successfully auditioning to appear on BBC Television, where he remained until 1983. Scott then worked at Thames Television on its evening Thames News bulletin from 1983 to 1988.

Early life Born on 9 November 1923, He went to Nottingham Technical College (which eventually became Nottingham Trent University), leaving in 1941.

In 1941, upon leaving school at age 17, He instead joined the Met Office at Gloucester after answering a newspaper advertisement for schoolboy weather forecasters. Scott spent 18 months at Thornaby-on-Tees, His workplaces were RAF Watnall Weather Centre (today the Nottingham Weather Centre) on the outskirts of Nottingham, and then in Nairobi, Kenya, and at RAF Uxbridge near London.

Broadcasting career In 1968, Scott was advised by his Met Office boss to apply for a job in television. Scott also worked as a higher scientific officer at the Ministry of Defence. He said money was not the factor in his leaving the Met Office.

Scott went on to work for the ITV London franchise Thames Television on its evening Thames News bulletin from May 1983 to June 1988, and was a presenter of Channel 4's magazine programme for the over 60s, Years Ahead, from 1988 to 1989. He also made regular appearances on the daytime programme Pebble Mill at One discussing weather-related topics, did the same on John Dunn's teatime show on BBC Radio 2 and presented the six-part BBC2 television series called Under the Weather in mid-1981. Scott was the author of the 1975 children's book about the weather Fun With Meteorology. He was a guest on Mike Neville's BBC1 series Mike on Friday in May 1980, and provided the weather forecast for the Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on 29 July 1981.

He died of cancer aged 85 on 11 November 2008.