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John Sherwood was Head of Newcastle Weather Centre from 1991 and appeared as a weatherman on the BBC's Newcastle-based regional news magazine `Look North' and on local radio stations in the area.

He joined the Met Office in 1970 at RAF Upavon in Wiltshire. From 1972 to 1975 he studied for a Physics degree at Imperial College, London, after which he was posted to Bracknell where he flew with the Met Research Flight "with a young and bearded Francis Wilson".

In the 1980s he worked at the London Weather Centre, in Aberdeen briefing oil companies and forecasting on oil rigs, at RAF Lyneham and on Ascension Island before becoming an instructor at the Met Office College. He was a BBC TV forecaster in 1981.

He remembers being on duty at Television Centre on the first day of the newly-launched `Sunday Grandstand' when almost all the sport was rained off and, in a desperate attempt to fill the gaps, found himself explaining the reasons in a long live interview with Desmond Lynam.

His interests include gardening, hill-walking, history, politics, geology, swimming, DIY and France - where the family own a cottage.

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	John Sherwood was Head of Newcastle Weather Centre from 1991 and appeared as a weatherman on the BBC's Newcastle-based regional news magazine `Look North' and on local radio stations in the area. He joined the Met Office in 1970 at RAF Upavon in Wiltshire. From 1972 to 1975 he studied for a Physics degree at Imperial College, London, after which he was posted to Bracknell where he flew with the Met Research Flight "with a young and bearded Francis Wilson". In the 1980s he worked at the London Weather Centre, in Aberdeen briefing oil companies and forecasting on oil rigs, at RAF Lyneham and on Ascension Island before becoming an instructor at the Met Office College. He was a BBC TV forecaster in 1981. He remembers being on duty at Television Centre on the first day of the newly-launched `Sunday Grandstand' when almost all the sport was rained off and, in a desperate attempt to fill the gaps, found himself explaining the reasons in a long live interview with Desmond Lynam. His interests include gardening, hill-walking, history, politics, geology, swimming, DIY and France - where the family own a cottage.