Jen Li-yu (; born 27 January 1945) is a retired Taiwanese

meteorologist A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists ...

who worked for the

Central Weather Bureau The Central Weather Administration (CWA; ) is the government meteorological research and forecasting institution of Taiwan (the Republic of China). In addition to meteorology, the Central Weather Administration also makes astronomical observation ...

and became the first

weather presenter A weather presenter (also known as a weather girl, weatherman or weather broadcaster) is a person who presents the Weather forecasting, weather forecast daily on radio, television or internet news broadcasts. Using tools such as projected weathe ...

in Taiwan to have been trained as a meteorologist.

Career

Jen was born in

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

and studied atmospheric science at

Chinese Culture University The Chinese Culture University (CCU; ) is a private Taiwanese university located in Yangmingshan in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. Established in 1962, CCU is one of the largest universities in Taiwan with an enrollment of about 32,000 student ...

. After completing his degree, Jen joined the

in 1968, and later led the agency's weather forecasting center from 1981–93. He spent 25 years with the Central Weather Bureau. Upon retiring from the agency in 1993, Jen was hired by

Taiwan Television Taiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd. ( zh, t=臺灣電視公司, p=Táiwān Diànshì Gōngsī, poj=Tâi-ôan-tiān-sī-kong-si), commonly known as TTV and formerly known as Central Television and Voice of Taiwan, is the first terrestrial televisi ...

to present the weather. He was the first professional meteorologist to serve as a weather presenter in Taiwan. Prior to Jen's hiring by TTV, television stations in Taiwan would often have newscasters read data complied by the Central Weather Bureau. Jen's success as a weather presenter led many other television stations to employ dedicated weather presenters. After leaving TTV in 1997, Jen worked for

China Television China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV; zh, c=中國電視公司, p=Zhōngguó Diànshì Gōngsī, poj=Tiong-kok-tiān-sī-kong-si, zhu=ㄓㄨㄥㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ ㄍㄨㄥㄙ), formerly called Taiwan Daytime TV (TDT) from 1969 to ...

until 2006 and

Chinese Television System The Chinese Television System Inc. () is a terrestrial television station in Taiwan and was founded in 1971. Recent milestones of the network are in sports events, including having the distinction to offer exclusive coverage of the 2017 Un ...

until 2009. Jen made his last broadcast on 31 May 2021, for

TVBS TVBS Media Inc. (), formerly Liann Yee Production Co., Ltd. () is a Taiwanese commercial television broadcasting company. It was originally established as a joint venture between Hong Kong television network TVB and Taiwanese network Era Televisio ...

. At the 56th Golden Bell Awards ceremony for television, held in October 2021, Jen was recognized with the

Golden Bell Award The Golden Bell Awards () is an annual Taiwanese television and radio production award presented in October or November each year by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, a division of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture. It is th ...

for special contributions. Republished as: He was the first meteorologist to receive a Golden Bell accolade.

References

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