Last updated July 2007
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Richard became the main weather presenter for the West's evening regional
television news programme Points West in 2000.
In addition to three daily television forecasts for
the programme, he also provides local radio and website forecasts for
the region.
Born and bred in Cornwall, Richard's interest in the weather began during geography
lessons at grammar school in the West.
After A-levels he joined the Met Office as a weather
observer in 1979 and spent the first ten years of his career at RAF
Lyneham, Exeter and RAF Honington.
During this time Richard gained further A-levels, an
HNC in Maths and Physics and a degree in Environmental Sciences with
the Open University.
These qualifications enabled him to gain a place on
a forecasting course in 1990 and he has subsequently spent his time
as a forecaster based at the Bristol Weather Centre.
After successfully auditioning for the role as an occasional
TV weather presenter, Richard went on to make the job his own when the
Weather Centre closed.
He enjoys the variety of work in the media, having presented weather forecasts whilst swimming, mountain boarding and even wing-walking on an aeroplane!
He likes to be active in his time away from work, runs half marathons and is a keen, but pretty hopeless (his words), badminton player. He also enjoys travelling having toured the United States, Southeast Asia and Africa in recent years.
He met his wife, Renu, white water rafting and bungee-jumping in Zambia in 2002.
Whilst his wife rarely accompanies him on his walks with Poppy, his elderly dalmatian, she does sometimes join him in his new interest, scuba diving.
