Background
He was born in County Wexford, where he still lives today.
He was born in County Wexford, where he still lives today.
He attended a local Christian Brothers school. Fleming attended University College Dublin where he studied for four years.
He joined Met Éireann in 1980 and has worked as co-ordinator of the RTÉ Television weather team He is currently Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann. He has been involved with the Wexford Swimming Club and the Wexford Arts Centre.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Experimental Physics.
When he left university, he moved straight to Irish Met Service. After sixteen months training, he was deployed to Dublin Airport as an aviation forecaster.
He moved to the Glasnevin base two years later. He gave his first weather forecast in July 1985.
In 1990, he was made co-ordinator of weather at RTÉ Television.
While on television he was noted for his tendency to wink. He has served as Chairperson of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology and Company-Chair of the First World Conference on Broadcast Meteorology. He has also chaired the Expert Team on Media Issues for the World Meteorological Organisation.
Fleming is currently Head of the General Forecasting Division in Met Éireann.
In this position he has been a representative of Met Éireann to the media. He is a regular contributor to Mooney on RTÉ Radio 1.
Furthermore, he is the treasurer of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM).