Come Rain or Shine Ewen has a Passion for British Weather ; Weather - It's Possibly the Favourite Topic of Conversation in the Uk, Apart From the State of the Economy. For the Average Man or Woman in the Street, the State of the Skies Is a Basis for Complaint or Pleasure. But for Ewen Mccallum, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office in Exeter, the Weather Is a Passion.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › July 27, 2008

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Weather - it's possibly the favourite topic of conversation in the UK, apart from the state of the economy. For the average man or woman in the street, the state of the skies is a basis for complaint or pleasure. But for Ewen McCallum, chief meteorologist at the Met Office in Exeter, the weather is a passion.

"It's a sort of vocation," said Ewen. "From my earliest memories as a child I've always been fascinated by the sky, thunderstorms, blizzards and extreme weather. I remember the dark gloom before the thunderstorm and then the bright sun coming through.

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Come Rain or Shine Ewen has a Passion for British Weather ; Weather - It's Possibly the Favourite Topic of Conversation in the Uk, Apart From the State of the Economy. For the Average Man or Woman in the Street, the State of the Skies Is a Basis for Complaint or Pleasure. But for Ewen Mccallum, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office in Exeter, the Weather Is a Passion.

"As I got older I wanted to structure it and know which cloud was which and what that meant in terms of next day's weather. That helped me a lot when I went on to become a meteorologist."

Growing up in the Clyde Valley in South West Scotland, Ewen did m...

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