Kirsty McCabe
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Kirsty McCabe (born 10 July 1975 in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire) is a BBC weather forecaster, on a range of the organisation's television and radio channels.
McCabe studied geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a first class honours degree before going on to spend three months as an intern at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where she used satellite magnetic data to interpret the underlying crustal structure of parts of Australasia. Further study at the University of Oxford saw her involved in a project to look for evidence of climate change in old volcanic soils on the Greek island of Santorini (Thera). While at Oxford she was elected President of the Jesus College Graduate Common Room. During her time at Oxford she was offered a three-month internship at New Scientist magazine where she went on to work as a sub-editor for four years.
Kirsty joined the BBC Weather team in September 2003 and started her training on new media forecasts working on the BBC Digital's interactive service and online. She completed the first part of her forecaster training at the Met Office College in 2004 and her advanced forecaster exams in 2005.
She now presents forecasts across a number of BBC outlets, including News 24, Radio 4, BBC World and BBC One.
In January 2006, Kirstly briefly gained some measure of notoriety in Scotland following a forecast where she told Rangers FC fans heading to their game that "there would be sunshine over Castle Greyskull". Castle Greyskull is often used as a derogatory term for Ibrox Stadium by opposing football fans.
McCabe lives in south London.
