Rob McElwee

Robert "Rob" McElwee (born 21 January 1961, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire) is a weather forecaster. He was BBC Weather's longest-serving weather forecaster since the departure of Michael Fish.

Early life He gained an HNC in maths, statistics and physics from Reading College of Technology (now Reading College).

Career McElwee joined the Met Office in 1982, working as a weather observer, spending most of the next eight years observing the weather on the Army Air Corps base at Netheravon on Salisbury Plain. Following this, he trained as a forecaster and worked at airbases in East Anglia.

He joined the BBC Weather Centre in May 1991, making his first appearance in July. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. In 2009, he lived with his wife Rosanne MacMillan (previously a continuity announcer for BBC TV) and sons in Buckinghamshire.

McElwee presented his final forecast on BBC One on 10 January 2011, during which he forecast rain with chances of snow for most of the UK. He ended the forecast saying, "'Till then, a bit of snow still. That's it from me. That's it from me, really. Goodnight." He was moved to backroom forecasting duties by the Met Office as part of a cost-cutting exercise.