Company & Personnel Profile

Founder and owner of British Weather Services, Jim Dale was born in Manchester, England in December 1960. Jim turned a hobby into a career when he served as a meteorologist in the Fleet Air Arm of the British Royal Navy during the early to mid 1980's. Following a spell working for a marine meteorologist firm in London, Jim formed British Weather Services in June 1987 and has since appeared extensively on national television, radio and in the press as an expert meteorologist consultant. Jim is a qualified football coach and also enjoys coaching cricket, when the weather plays ball!

Chief meteorologist Adrian Crocker has had a life long interest in all things meteorological and whilst serving with the Royal Navy he was able to qualify and turn a hobby and a passion into a vocation. Upon leaving the Royal Navy Adrian joined the team at British Weather Services and across the last decade he has worked his way up through the ranks, culminating in overall responsibility for UK and European forecast outputs. When not working (which is rare) Adrian enjoys many of the delights that his home county of Cornwall has to offer, with surfing and cliff walking high on his list of interests.

British Weather Services’ John Kettley was born in North Yorkshire in July 1952 and served for 30 years with the UK Meteorological Office before going freelance. John now acts as a broadcaster, weather consultant and partner with British Weather Services, where he fronts many contracts including the Football Association, Twickenham and leading UK racecourses such as Newbury, Cheltenham, Haydock Park and Newmarket. John was a national BBC TV broadcast meteorologist from 1985 to 2000 and contracted to BBC Radio 5Live from 2001-2005. Other TV work included resident weather presenter for the 'Travel Show', 1987-1989 along with an educational series for schools. More Info...

Senior meteorologist, John Ejdowski, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania January 15, 1953. John has had an interest in weather as a child and after enlisting in the United States Navy in 1972, qualified to become a weather forecaster. He switched services in 1976 and joined the United States Air Force. John has forecasted the weather across the world having been stationed in Japan, Korea, America, Germany and England. After 23 years of service, he retired in the UK in 1996 and has settled down with his wife and children in England and is one of the most experienced members of British Weather Services.

Chief historical analyst, Terry Mayes was born in 1947 in the middle of one of the severest UK winters on record. This seems to have fuelled Terry’s avid interest in weather data. He began weather recording in December 1959 and since then has had spells as editor of Climatological Observers Link and Weather Observers Network. Terry joined British Weather Services in 1993 and is directly responsible for the massive BWS database of meteorological data.