Tomasz Schafernaker

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Tomasz Schafernaker is a BBC Weather forecaster. He regularly presents the weather on the BBC News at One, and often fronts the BBC's flagship forecast for the week ahead during the Countryfile programme on Sunday mornings. He also appears on BBC World News, BBC News, BBCi and BBC Radio.

Tomasz was born in Gdańsk, Poland and attended school both in his native Poland and in the UK. He was educated at the independent school St. John's College, Southsea, in Portsmouth, where he took A-levels in Mathematics, Physics and Art. Whilst Tomasz is a very talented artist his real passion was always for the weather. This led him to study Meteorology at the University of Reading where he gained a his BSc in Meteorology with honours.

He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000, working as a Broadcast Assistant. He spent some time giving BBC regional forecasts across the UK, and presented on BBC World during the winter of 2003.

During 2004 and 2005 Tomasz upgraded his Meteorological knowledge and experience, studying at the Met Office college in Exeter and training as a forecaster for aviation. He also worked for a time at ITV, as well as the London Weather Centre.

Tomasz rejoined the BBC in 2006.

His favourite colour is green, he enjoys jogging and has never had much of a taste for beer, preferring cider.

Tomasz caused outrage amongst Scottish BBC viewers in February 2007 when referring to the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles as "nowheresville" in a weather bulletin aired on both BBC One and the BBC News Channel. He later made an apology.

On May 19, 2008, Schafernaker confirmed live on air on the BBC News (TV channel) that his surname is Austrian.

Schafernaker is also well known for is on air gaffes, including getting the giggles, dropping his clicker, and more recently, not knowing weather he was on air or not, and walked out.