Met Office broadcaster Carol Kirkwood has been named as the UK’s best TV weather presenter by the Television and Radio Industries Club for a fourth time.

Carol joined the Met Office weather team at the BBC in 1998 and is best known for her weather presenting during morning television on BBC Breakfast but also works for the BBC News Channel, BBC One and, more recently, the Great British Weather show.

Carol said: “This is the jewel in the crown of a fantastic start to the year, which has included presenting to Her Majesty the Queen, and the Sandringham Women’s Institute in January. I’m privileged to work within so many fantastic teams from the forecasters at the Met Office to BBC Weather and BBC Breakfast”

The Met Office in association with BBC Weather provide more than 120 weather broadcasts a day and more than 1,000 hours of television and radio each year – with forecasts for the whole world.