Company & Personnel Profile

Founder and owner of British Weather Services, Jim N R Dale was born in Manchester, England in December 1960. Jim turned a boyhood hobby into a career when he qualified and 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 company 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, who also enjoys the gym, film, good food and travel.

Senior meteorologist Adrian Crocker has had a lifelong interest in all things meteorological and like Jim served in the Fleet Air Arm after qualifying. Upon leaving the Royal Navy Adrian joined the team at British Weather Services and across the last decade or so he has worked his way up through the ranks, culminating in overall responsibility for UK and European forecast outputs, including focus on BWS’s largescale sporting outputs. When not working 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. If you want to utilise John’s pedigree and star quality in any way please go to -: 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 the British Weather Services team.

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.