Education
Born in Crawley, West Sussex, Young attended the Old Palace School in Croydon, where she is now a governor. She then studied Geography at University of Bristol, graduating in 1990.
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Career
She joined the Met Office as a graduate trainee in 1990. After qualifying as a weather forecaster, she started broadcasting on HTV West as a stand-in, and then appearing as a regular presenter for British Broadcasting Corporation West. In November 1993, she joined the British Broadcasting Corporation Weather Centre as the then youngest British Broadcasting Corporation weather presenter.
She was a main presenter for "The Weather Show" and also presented the radio series "Strange Weather Days", and the weather series for the children"s programme Zig-Zag.
She was the lead presenter at the British Broadcasting Corporation Weather Centre from 2002 until 11 November 2005, when she left to become a full-time mother to her young family. Married to a British Airways pilot and resident in Surrey, since her retirement from British Broadcasting Corporation Weather she has co-authored a children"s book, "Discovery Plus: Weather & Sky".
She also acts for the London Borough of Sutton as an Ambassador for the School Travel Plan, leading assemblies and lessons on environmental issues such as weather/climate change, to all age groups from Nursery School children up to learned adults.
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