Peter Byrne (weather presenter)

Peter Alexander Byrne is an Australian television presenter and former meteorologist. Byrne is most notable for being a weather presenter for WIN Television from 1990 until 2012.

Peter was born in Mackay, Queensland and worked with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for over 37 years.

After graduating from a high school in Mackay, Byrne was appointed as a junior weather observer at the Bureau of Meteorology. Byrne then went on to complete meteorological training in Brisbane and Melbourne for 18 months before being posted to Brisbane. After his marriage to a Townsville school teacher, Byrne was posted to Madang on the north coast of Papua New Guinea which Byrne described as a "weather man's dream" as there was a smoking volcano to the north and snow-capped mountains to the south.

Byrne undertook more training in Melbourne and after receiving the relevant qualifications in 1971, he went from being an weather observer that collected and collated information to a fully-fledged forecaster. His new role as a forecaster required him to chart and analyse information to make forecasts. His role now also included briefing pilots - and the media. His job as a forecaster took him Byrne to Townsville where he worked for nine years. During his time in Townsville, Byrne was heavily involved with the Royal Australian Air Force and the United States Air Force as they researched the behaviour of cyclones.

In his time with the Bureau he worked in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and many regional centres, including Cairns, Mackay, Cloncurry, Brisbane, Townsville and some time in Mount Isa before finally settling in Yeppoon in 1986 where he made numerous appearances on RTQ7's local news, being regularly interviewed about storms and for other weather-related stories.

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