Gerald Fleming

Gerald Fleming retired as Head of Forecast Division for Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Service in 2017. For most of his 37 years with Met Éireann he worked as a weather forecaster and a weather broadcaster; he led the television weather team for Irish public service broadcaster RTÉ for about two decades. A founder member and past Chairman of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology, he was Co-Chair of the First World Conference on Broadcast Meteorology (Barcelona, 2004). A member of the Irish Meteorological Society and the American Meteorological Society, he is active in the European Meteorological Society and was awarded the EMS Silver Medal, their highest honor, in 2019.