Education
Lear graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Drama, where she developed her talents playing clarinet and piano.
Lear graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Drama, where she developed her talents playing clarinet and piano.
She is also a regular forecaster on the British Broadcasting Corporation News at Six and was previously a weekend presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast. After a stint as a researcher for Children"s British Broadcasting Corporation she took the job of sports presenter for an independent radio production company, covering amongst other events the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Lear began her weather presenting career at Central Television in 1992 and then spent two years at LBC in London.
She joined the United Kingdom Weather Channel at its launch in 1996 and took up her most recent post at the British Broadcasting Corporation in April 1998.
Lear has begun to present other British Broadcasting Corporation programmes, including Trading Up on BBC1. She has presented the weather forecast on the British Broadcasting Corporation One programme Countryfile.