Philip Eden

Geoffrey Philip Eden FRMetS (14 July 1951 – 3 January 2018)^[1] was a leading British weather journalist and weather historian.^[2][3]

Birmingham University

Philip Eden studied a BA in Geography before gaining a masters in applied meteorology and climatology at Birmingham University in 1972.^[4][5]

He worked for some time in the 1980s for Noble Denton and Associates in their meteorology department. It was during this period that his career as a presenter began.

His career as a radio weather presenter began with the (then) London station LBC in 1983. He was subsequently chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005. He wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 until forced to cease because of ill-health in 2015, and also had a daily "Weather Watch" column in the Daily Telegraph from 1998 to 2012. Eden wrote weekly features and monthly look-backs for WeatherOnline. He authored a number of books on British weather and climate.^[6][7][8]

Philip Eden was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2007 to 2009.^[9][10] Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000. The prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through a paper or papers, or other outstanding service to Weather, in the preceding five years that has furthered the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography.^[11] He was Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust from 2007.^[12]

In the last few years of his life he was suffering from Lewy body dementia.^[8]

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