Heartbreaking: Laura Tobin Meteorologist and scientist Just Passed Away at The Aged of 42…see..more…

Heartbreaking: Laura Tobin Meteorologist and scientist Just Passed Away at The Aged of 42…see..more… the start of her career, Laura Tobin was adamant that she would never be a weather presenter. A trained meteorologist, she was sick of being asked “Are you going to be on TV?” as a joke, aware that it was a comment on her gender as much as her job. “They’re suggesting that you’re going to stand there, point at a screen, and not be credible,” she says.

Today, however, Tobin is a regular fixture on television screens across the UK. Since 2012, she has been a meteorologist and weather presenter for the broadcaster ITV. She says she is grateful she took a chance in her career: “You should never say never. It’s good to give something a go.”

Prepared for anything

Tobin’s career began with a degree in physics and meteorology at the University of Reading, which she completed in 2003. She actually failed the first year of her physics A level (the physics qualification she needed to go to university), but something “clicked” in her second year; she fell in love with the subject and did well in her final exams. “It’s integral to know physics to be able to forecast the weather,” says Tobin. “You need to be able to model the atmosphere and understand how it moves. The atmosphere is essentially a fluid so large parts of my degree were fluid dynamics.“

After graduating she joined the MET Office – the UK’s national meteorological service – as a forecaster. Based in Cardiff, Wales, her work was used to produce local weather services including radio bulletins and forecasts