Meteorologist Jean Byrne has been awarded a prestigious weather award. The RTÉ weather forecaster, who has won something of a cult following for her fashion style, scooped the European Meteorological Society’s 2011 TV Weather Forecast Trophy Award for “one of her weather broadcasts" on RTÉ TV.
The competition is limited to those of the meteorologist profession and all nominations were assessed by a Select Committee of the EMS, who chose Jean as the 2011 winner.
This is the first time an Irish person has been awarded this trophy and the presentation will take place during the Media Session of this week’s joint EMS/European Conference on Applications of Meteorology meeting in Berlin.
"I’m delighted and honoured to receive this prestigious award, coming as it does from a group of my professional colleagues,” Jean said. “It recognises the importance of the work that meteorologists do and how we try to give our best service to viewers and listeners."
