Everton was born in Cambridge in 1964. He worked in the Department of Social Security as a civil servant before joining the Met Office in 1991. He spent a year at the Norwich Weather Centre. Having completed the forecaster foundation programme in March 2000, which included on-the-job training at RAF Marham in Norfolk, he went on to become a forecaster at the London Weather Centre where he worked for three months.
Everton joined the BBC Weather Centre in July 2000 and had the distinction of being the first black forecaster on the BBC team. He initially appeared on BBC World and BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Services) and went on to become BBC Radio 5 Live’s main weather presenter. He also appeared regularly on BBC News 24 and BBC World. He left in February 2007 to join the Al Jazeera English news channel as senior weather presenter/producer, based in Doha.
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