Background
Gibbs was born in Sunderland, and brought up in Kendal, attending Kendal Grammar School.
Gibbs was born in Sunderland, and brought up in Kendal, attending Kendal Grammar School.
He graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 with an Honours degree in Physics and Geography.
He has previously worked on the British Broadcasting Corporation News at One, British Broadcasting Corporation News at Six, British Broadcasting Corporation News at Ten and British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast. He started work at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. He worked at the British Halley base on the Brunt Ice Shelf for two years from October 1979 where he made routine observations of the weather and helped to maintain the base.
When he returned to the United Kingdom in May 1982 he joined the Met Office where he spent a year as a weather forecaster in training.
He spent several years forecasting at Royal Air Force Honington in Suffolk and on the Benbecula island in the Outer Hebrides, where he forecast for the Army missile range on South Uist before moving to the Norwich Weather Centre in 1989. His television debut as a forecaster was with British Broadcasting Corporation Norwich"s Look East in 1993, and he moved to the British Broadcasting Corporation Weather Centre to join the British Broadcasting Corporation World team in October 1997.
He began forecasting for other British Broadcasting Corporation channels in November 1998 and he now broadcasts across all British Broadcasting Corporation channels. He often hosts Gardeners" Question Time on Radio 4.
