[2][3] Philip Eden studied a BA in Geography before gaining a masters in applied meteorology and climatology at Birmingham University in 1972.
[4][5] His career as a radio weather presenter began with the (then) London station LBC in 1983.
He was subsequently chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005.
[8][9] Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000.
[10] He was a member of Hampstead Scientific Society and Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust from 2007.