Editing Michael Fish (section)

==Career==
Fish was born on 27 April 1944 in [[Eastbourne]], Sussex.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fish|first1=Michael|title=Biography of Michael Fish|url=http://www.michael-fish.com/michael-fish/file/biography.php|website=Michael Fish Website|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>
Educated at Osmington School then [[Eastbourne College]] and [[City University London]], Fish was the longest-serving broadcast meteorologist on [[British television]]. He joined the [[Met Office]] in 1962 and started on [[BBC Radio]] in 1971, moving to the role on television in 1974.

Fish was appointed a [[Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (MBE) in the [[2004 Birthday Honours]].<ref>United Kingdom list: {{London Gazette |issue=57315 |supp=y |pages=16 |date=11 June 2004}}
</ref> He was retired and made his final forecast on 6 October 2004 on the ''[[BBC Ten O'Clock News]]'' bulletin. In a specially extended report<ref name="lastbbc">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akpjFhYs2ko   |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/akpjFhYs2ko |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=BBC Weather 6th October 2004: Farewell Michael Fish |publisher=BBC |date=6 October 2004}}{{cbignore}}</ref> fellow forecaster [[Ian McCaskill]] paid tribute to Fish in stating that "Michael is the last of the true weatherman you will ever see. Michael can actually interpret the skies – he can do the weather forecast the hard way: the old way that people don't do any more, because nowadays most of the decisions are made by the computer."

That year, Fish was also awarded the [[Television and Radio Industries Club|TRIC]] Award for TV Weather Presenter of the Year and ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' gave him the honour of "National Treasure".

Michael Fish also co-authored a book with [[Paul Hudson]] and [[Ian McCaskill]] called ''Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather'', published in October 2007. He was awarded honorary degrees by [[City University London]] in 1996 and [[Exeter University]] in the summer of 2005.

More than eight years after retiring from the BBC national forecasts team, he made a return to regular forecasting, presenting a weekly weather forecast for Netweather.tv. He resumed forecasting on [[BBC South East Today]], providing holiday cover for the regular forecaster and has also taken to acting. He is a patron of numerous organisations and charities. He has since retired from presenting his weekly forecast on Netweather.tv as announced on the 24 December 2021.