About the Author

Brendan McWilliams, BSc. MBA, CMet, FRMetS, born in Dublin in 1944, was an accomplished meteorologist, scientist and administrator. He was formerly Deputy Director of Met Eireann and subsequently a Director of the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation - EUMETSAT. He frequently represented Ireland at an International level within the field of meteorology and climate change. He is best known in Ireland, however, for his daily Weather Eye column, which ran in The Irish Times from 1988 until his death in 2007