Laura Tobin: the meteorologist and broadcaster who won’t stop.

Laura Tobin: the meteorologist and broadcaster who won’t stop talking about climate change

Laura Tobin: the meteorologist and broadcaster who won’t stop talking about climate change

Laura Tobin, the broadcast meteorologist for Good Morning Britain, talks to Katherine Skipper about her love of physics, why she’s always over-prepared, and her mission to report on the climate crisis

At the start of her career, Laura Tobin was adamant that she would never be a weather presenter. A trained meteorologist, she was sick of being asked “Are you going to be on TV?” as a joke, aware that it was a comment on her gender as much as her job. “They’re suggesting that you’re going to stand there, point at a screen, and not be credible,” she says.

Today, however, Tobin is a regular fixture on television screens across the UK. Since 2012, she has been a meteorologist and weather presenter for the broadcaster ITV. She says she is grateful she took a chance in her career: “You should never say never. It’s good to give something a go.”