![]() ![]() I ended up becoming a BBC secretary instead, before moving into production as an assistant.”Ĭarol left the BBC when she married her now ex-husband, Jimmy Kirkwood, a successful entrepreneur whose work took them across the country. “When I got to the age at which I was eligible to apply to Blue Peter though, I had become far too shy. So, after boarding school, Carol enrolled at Napier University in Edinburgh. ![]() They kindly replied to say that I was too young, but that I should go back to them with a degree.” So, when I was 12, I wrote to Blue Peter asking if I could come and be a presenter. “But my interest in weather was accidental it wasn’t something that I set out to pursue. We have tropical trees, plus the shortest fresh water river and the deepest loch in Europe. “The movie Local Hero, with Burt Lancaster, was filmed up there. “The area is stunningly beautiful,” she enthuses. In fact, however, Carol’s career owes nothing to these unusual climatic roots. Washed by the warming seas of the Gulf Stream that travel up from the Caribbean, Morar – famed for its silver sandy beaches – enjoys much milder temperatures than the rest of Scotland. Born in 1962, in the small North-West Scottish village of Morar, the young Carol MacKellaig grew up in a rare microclimate. One is tempted – if you’ll forgive the amateur psychology – to put it down to her childhood. “I love the weather and the fact that no two days are ever the same.” “I love my job,” she says happily, down the line from her Maidenhead home where she has lived for some 20 years. Little wonder that she has captured the nation’s heart. As the weather anchor on BBC Breakfastand The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2, it’s Carol who greets us each morning, steering us through tempest, storm and wind with her disarmingly sunny smile. The Scottish vowels of Carol Kirkwood, the nation’s favourite forecaster, ring out with their usual good cheer. Here she tells Emily Horton about pressure charts, early starts and dancing days ![]() Windsor, Ascot & Maidenhead Magazine December 2016Ĭarol Kirkwood is the BBC’s first lady of weather. ![]()
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