Manali Lukha is a British

weather forecaster A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists in research, while t ...

for

ITV plc ITV plc is a British media company that holds 13 of the 15 regional television licences that make up the ITV (TV network), ITV network (Channel 3), the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom. ITV plc ...

. She is Head of ITV Weather. Manali Lukha has been working for the

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for 10 years and was recently promoted to manage the Met Office Media Team where she provides weather services to ITV and

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. In this role, Manali manages the daily production of weather bulletins for ITN and she occasionally presents the

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Weekend Weather. This enables her to address the unit as both the manager and a user. In 2011 and September 2013, Manali was seen as a relief forecaster for STV. With a degree in

Geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

and

Geography Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...

followed by a

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Geographical Information Systems A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data. Much of this often happens within a spatial database; however, this is not ...

, Manali joined the Met Office as part of a graduate recruitment scheme. Starting out as a

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, Manali developed software now used by Football Association (FA) in determining weather conditions for matches. Keen to pursue weather from a media perspective she was recruited to the Met Office Media Centre in 2000. In this role she has secured a number of key contracts for the Met Office. On 28 September 2012 she presented her final weather forecast ahead of her maternity leave.Manali's weather blog
ITV London, 28 September 2012,

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She returned to ITV London on 14 January 2013. , she appears across all ITV regions as an occasional relief weather presenter. , she has also been seen as a relief weather presenter for the ITV National Weather.

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* * British television presenters ITV Weather Living people British people of Tamil descent 1975 births {{climate-bio-stub