Education
University of Nottingham.
University of Nottingham.
She appears regularly on British Broadcasting Corporation News, British Broadcasting Corporation World News, British Broadcasting Corporation Red Button, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2, as well as British Broadcasting Corporation One. Willetts is an occasional weather forecaster on the British Broadcasting Corporation News at Ten and the British Broadcasting Corporation News channel. Born in Chester in England, Willetts went to the Eirias High School in Colwyn Bay, Conwy in Wales.
She obtained a first class degree in Physics at the University of Nottingham.
She also played badminton internationally for Wales before joining the Met Office in February 1994, where she began a five-month forecaster training course at the Met Office college, at the former Royal Air Force Shinfield Park (occupied by the Met Office from 1971-2004). Also on the course at the same time was Liz Bentley, the current Chief Executive of the Met Office, John Hammond, and the regional presenter Paul Hudson, with whom she played tennis with most mornings.
In July 1994 she moved to Cardiff Weather Centre and from 1995 she appeared as a forecaster on British Broadcasting Corporation Television and Radio in Wales. In 1997 she moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation Weather Centre in London to work for British Broadcasting Corporation News.
She has also been impersonated on the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy Dead Ringers.