Tomasz Schafernaker
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Tomasz Schafernaker is a BBC Weather forecaster.
Tomasz was born in Gdańsk, Poland and attended school both in his native Poland and in the UK. He studied A-levels in Mathematics, Physics and Art at St. John's College, Southsea. Whilst Tomasz is a very talented artist his real passion was always for the weather. This led him to study Meteorology at the University of Reading where he gained a his BSc in Meteorology with honours.
He joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000, working as a Broadcast Assistant. He spent some time giving BBC regional forecasts across the UK, and presented on BBC World during the winter of 2003.
During 2004 and 2005 Tomasz upgraded his Meteorological knowledge and experience, studying at the Met Office college in Exeter and training as a forecaster for aviation. He also worked for a time at ITV, as well as the London Weather Centre.
Tomasz rejoined the BBC in 2006 and is presenting forecasts across many of the main channels, including BBC News 24, BBC World, BBCi and BBC One.
His favourite colour is green, he enjoys jogging and has never had much of a taste for beer, preferring cider.
Tomasz caused outrage amongst Scottish BBC viewers in Feburary 2007 when referring to the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles as "nowheresville" in a weather bulletin aired on both BBC One and BBC News 24.
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