Speaker Evening - Penny Tranter "Sailing Weather"

Start Date: 19 Jan 2017 20:00

End Date: 19 Jan 2017 22:00

Venue: Berkswell & Balsall Common Sports and Community Association

Penny Tranter is a former BBC Weather forecaster, Chartered Meteorologist and member of the Royal Meteorological Society. She joined the Met Office in 1983 as a trainee forecaster and in 1992 joined the team at the BBC Weather Centre, making her first TV appearance later that year. For some years she was a regular weather presenter on BBC One. She left the BBC Weather Centre in 2008 and now works as the Meteorology Training Manager at the Met Office in Exeter. As well as having had a distinguished career as a professional weather forecaster and presenter on TV, Penny has sailed since she was a teenager and has worked as a sailing instructor in New York State, and has crossed the Channel in a Force 9. So she’s well able to tell us about forecasting weather for sailing – including support for the 2012 Olympics!