Sean Batty
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Seán is currently a regional BBC weather presenter working from the BBCs Television Centre in London. He joined the BBC in 2004 and occasionally presents at many of the nations and regions on both television and radio.
He was born in Paisley, Scotland and studied his Highers (A-levels) at Castlehead High School. Seán left Scotland in 2000 to head south and study Meteorology at Reading University.
His interest in meteorology began when he was only seven years old, after receiving a BBC weather kit for his birthday. Seán became the weather forecaster for the School newspaper as well as the Scottish regional newspaper, The Paisley Daily Express for a few months during the summer of 1996.
After finishing at Reading University Seán began working for the Met Office as a weather observer at the school of Army Training at an airbase called Middle Wallop, which is close to Andover in Hampshire. He worked at the base for over a year before moving into the media/met world by working with the ITV weather team preparing TV weather graphics and maps for various customers such as S4C, UTV (Ulster Television) and, of course, ITV. At ITV he occasionally briefed the presenters and also provided many of the photographs, which you occasionally see on their TV weather broadcasts. Seán gained great experience of working in the media/met world at ITV before moving to the BBC in 2004 as a broadcast assistant.
Seán covers for other presenters occasionaly and can be seen on many of the English regions presenting the weather on television for the likes of BBC Look North, BBC West, BBC South, BBC West and has also presented the weather for BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. Seán can also be heard on many of the BBCs local radio stations acoss England and Wales.
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