Edward (Eddy) Graham - Profile

Dr. Edward (Eddy) Graham is an atmospheric scientist and an award-winning lecturer. He is based at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Stornoway, Scotland. A former operational weather forecaster, Eddy today is well-known nationally & internationally as ‘Eddy Weather’, tweeting unique snippets and statistics about our ever-changing weather and climate. In Stornoway, he also runs the met & climate consultancy 'eddyweather'. He can frequently be found on social media @eddy_weather.

Eddy teaches a wide portfolio of modules within the Sustainable Development, Geography and Environmental Science programmes, with advanced knowledge in particular of astronomical site selection & testing, climate reanalyses, clouds & water vapour, met observation, historical climate & homogenisation, modelling and statistics.

Eddy's undergraduate degree was in Natural Science from Trinity College Dublin. He later obtained an MSc in Applied Meteorology from the University of Reading. His PhD is in Applied Physics from the University of Bern. Over the years, Eddy has participated in a wide range of research projects in Canada, Chile, South Africa, the Canary Islands, Switzerland, the UAE and Kenya, and he strongly encourages his students to travel widely, learn foreign languages and broaden their life experiences. Since 2019, Eddy is also Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Meteorological Society's flagship journal, Weather. He is also a visiting Professor at El Instituto de Astrofisica de las Canarias, Tenerife, and is a non-executive board member of the Open Data Rescue project, McGill University, Montreal (Canada).

Aside from keeping an eye on the weather, Eddy’s hobbies include road cycling, natural history, time-lapse animation (see below), travelling and learning new languages. He has picked up native Lewis Gaelic and also speaks French, Swiss German, some Spanish and a little Italian.

Dr. Eddy Graham