Tomasz Schafernaker was born on 8 January 1979 and is a Polish-British meteorologist who currently works for BBC Weather.
12 Facts About Tomasz Schafernaker
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Tomasz Schafernaker was born on 8 January 1979 in Gdansk, Poland, and attended school both in his native Poland and in Britain.
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Tomasz Schafernaker was educated at the independent school St John's College, Southsea, in Portsmouth, where he took A-levels in mathematics, physics and art, followed by the University of Reading where he gained a BSc in Meteorology.
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Tomasz Schafernaker joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000, working as a broadcast assistant, and became a presenter in the same year; this made him the youngest man to present the BBC Weather.
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Tomasz Schafernaker spent some time giving BBC regional forecasts across the UK, and presented on BBC World during the winter of 2003.
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From 2004 until 2005, Schafernaker studied at the Met Office college in Exeter, Devon, and trained as a forecaster for aviation.
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Tomasz Schafernaker worked for a time at ITV, as well as the London Weather Centre.
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Tomasz Schafernaker became famous for raising "the finger" towards, and after a gentle tease from, the BBC news presenter Simon McCoy, in the belief that he was off camera.
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Tomasz Schafernaker was later named Best TV Weather Presenter at TRIC Awards 2010.
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Still working for the Met Office, Tomasz Schafernaker presented on various broadcast projects for various UK networks including The Weather Channel, Discovery Channel and Channel Four.
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Tomasz Schafernaker returned to BBC national broadcasts on 19 January 2013.
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Tomasz Schafernaker modelled for the front cover of Attitude Active a British gay magazine in January 2010 and was again photo featured by them in 2017.