Geoffrey Philip Eden FRMetS (14 July 1951 – 3 January 2018)[1] was a leading British weather journalist and weather historian.[2] [3]
Philip Eden studied a BA in Geography before gaining a masters in applied meteorology and climatology at Birmingham University in 1972.[4] [5]
His career as a radio weather presenter began with the (then) London station LBC in 1983. He was subsequently chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005. He wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 until forced to cease because of ill-health in 2015, and also had a daily "Weather Watch" column in the Daily Telegraph from 1998 to 2012. Eden wrote weekly features and monthly look-backs for WeatherOnline. He authored a number of books on British weather and climate.[3] [6] [7]
Philip Eden was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2007 to 2009.[8] [9] Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000. The prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through a paper or papers, or other outstanding service to Weather, in the preceding five years that has furthered the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography.[10]
He was a member of Hampstead Scientific Society and Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust from 2007.[11] In the last few years of his life he was suffering from Lewy body dementia.[7]