Helen Young is an English weather forecaster and television presenter. 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. 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 BBC West. In November 1993, she joined the BBC Weather Centre as the then youngest BBC 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 BBC 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 BBC Weather she has co-authored a children's book, "Discovery Plus: Weather & Sky". 

June 10th, 1969 in Crawley (Age 55)