Meet the BBC Wiltshire weather man Richard Angwin.

Here he explains how he got involved with weather forecasting and talks about the vagaries of Wiltshire's weather.

I realised that a career in meteorology required maths and physics which were never really my forte.

So when I left school in Cornwall I worked in insurance for a year whilst waiting to begin a career in Customs and Excise.

But one day I saw a job advertisement for the Met Office and very soon after, found myself working at RAF Lyneham.

I spent three years working in the county before other postings at other stations across Southern England followed.

After a good deal of studying to HNC level I was accepted on a forecasting course and a posting to Bristol followed back in 1990. I have been here ever since.

Richard Angwin - Wiltshire weather is his expertise.

Forecasting the weather for Wiltshire might seem to be a relatively straightforward business. It is land-locked and, Salisbury Plain apart, relatively flat. But it does pose some challenges.

Sea breezes, from the Bristol and English Channels, can sometimes make it milder than one would expect. And low cloud from the east coast can spoil what would otherwise have been a sunny day.

After 12 years forecasting for the county I now feel I have just about got the measure of the county weatherwise.

So whether it is appearing on BBC Points West each evening, or BBC Wiltshire Sound every weekday I hope to keep everyone up-to-date with all the latest weather news.

When the BBC does let me have time away from my weather charts I do enjoy travelling, having been to the USA, Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam in the last few years.

I still walk around the county with my dalmatian, Poppy, during the drier months. And when snow is in the air I can usually be found waxing my skis and planning a trip to the Alps.