Background
McGrane was born in Dingwall, Ross-shire in 1975 and educated at Dingwall Academy.
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Education
Born in Dingwall, Ross-shire, McGrane attended Dingwall Academy before moving to Glasgow to attend the University of Strathclyde. She moved to Glasgow, where she received an honours degree in geography and an Master of Science in environmental studies from the University of Strathclyde. She studied for one year at the University of Iowa in the United States, as part of her third-year studies.
Career
She took a job at the Met Office in 1999 and began presenting breakfast weather reports in 2000, before moving to Reporting Scotland in early 2009. She has appeared as a weather consultant on several British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland productions. She decided on a career as a forecaster during her studies, in particular due to an experience in Iowa where she had to escape from a tornado in her car.
She recalls being mocked for her decision by a lecturer.
McGrane joined the Met Office in 1999, with Bill Giles as her mentor. Following her training at the Met Office College in Reading as a forecaster, she moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Centre as a broadcast assistant, then moved to British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland as a weather girl at the end of 2000.
McGrane spent nine years as the #2 forecaster for British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland, spending much of her time working on the breakfast shift covering regular radio slots Good Morning Scotland, and Breakfast television, where her job required her to get up at 3 Department of Administration and Management. She covered the Weather on Reporting Scotland once or twice a week, but became Lead weather presenter on Reporting Scotland in late December 2009, following the departure of Heather Reid, following the latter"s decision to leave for a role at Learning and Teaching Scotland after fifteen years of presenting. In February 2012, it was announced that Gail would not return to the British Broadcasting Corporation, after deciding to quit.
In July 2012, Gail made her first appearance as a weather presenter on STV, where she is now a relief forecaster for the station.
McGrane presents on Landward and previously appeared on The Beechgrove Garden as a forecaster.
