Early life

Taylor has a degree in City and Regional Planning from Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Cardiff University is a leading research university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities. The university is consistently recognised as providing high quality research-based...

 where he studied before working for a local council in Lincolnshire. In the next couple of years, Taylor took physics and mathematics courses through the Open University

Open University

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 in order to improve his chances of gaining a place on the weather-forecasting programme at the Met Office College.

Broadcasting career

Having worked as a Met Office

Met Office

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 weather forecaster since 1998, Matt joined the BBC Weather team in 2004, originally working at the Cardiff weather centre. He now broadcasts across a range of BBC outlets, including BBC One

BBC One

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, BBC News, BBC World News, Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

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, Radio 2

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, Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

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 and 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live

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. He's a regular weather forecaster on BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast

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, mainly at the weekends and also often forecasts for Radio 4's Today

Today programme

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.

Personal life

Taylor's intriguing accent reflects some mobility in youth - the family moved to Glasgow, Scotland when he was one, and to Leeds in Yorkshire when he was fourteen.

His interests include golf, squash and football; in an interview, he ruefully admitted the worst thing about his work is the shifts.

External links

• Matt Taylor profile BBC Weather