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Steve's main topic is the weather ...; ACCORDING to Samuel Johnson "when two Englishmen meet the first talk is of the weather." Centuries on, we are still a nation obsessed by sunshine and showers. On the 75th anniversary of the broadcast of the first

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From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
Date: 19980406
Author:Gibson, Richard

DO any of us fail to mention the weather at least once a day?

Steven Crampton talks about little else. After all, it is the 25-year-old's job to discuss the weather's patterns and cycles and predict what the heavens have in store for us.

Steven has been a fully fledged "weather man" at The Birmingham Weather Department for almost two years and reckons any youngster wanting to enter a career in meteorology should know all the facts of the job before taking the plunge.

He is quick to warn that although we see household names like John Kettley, Michael Fish and Bill ...

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Steve's main topic is the weather ...; ACCORDING to Samuel Johnson "when two Englishmen meet the first talk is of the weather." Centuries on, we are still a nation obsessed by sunshine and showers. On the 75th anniversary of the broadcast of the first

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