Simon King
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 61 |
Date of birth | December 27,1962 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Nairobi |
Kenya | |
Spouse | Marguerite Smits van Oyen |
Parents | John King |
Eve King | |
Job | Actor |
Cinematographer | |
Naturalist | |
Presenter | |
Books | Nature Watch: How To Track and Observe Wildlife |
Shetland Diaries | |
Wild Life | |
Springwatch and Autumnwatch | |
Springwatch: Accompanies the BBC 2 TV Series | |
Insect Nations: Visions of the Ant World from Kropotkin to Bergson | |
Simon King's Wildguide | |
Movies/Shows | Earth |
Deep Blue | |
Springwatch with Bill Oddie | |
Simon King's Shetland Diaries | |
Autumnwatch | |
Groupie Girl | |
Awards | British Academy Television Craft Award for Photography - Factual |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming | |
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program | |
Listen artist | www.deezer.com |
Groups | Hawkwind |
Opal Butterfly | |
Hawklords | |
Songs | SongsSilver MachineIn Search of Space · 1971 Urban GuerillaDoremi Fasol Latido · 1972 Hurry on SundownHawkwind · 1970 View 25+ more |
List | Silver MachineIn Search of Space · 1971 |
Height | 183 (cm) |
Weight | 78 (kg) |
Career start | 2000 |
Number | Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. |
Position | Defender |
Education | Blaise High School |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 427028 |
Simon King Life story
Simon Henry King OBE HonFRPS is a British naturalist, author, conservationist, television presenter and cameraman, specialising in nature documentaries. King received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2011. King has been working in the field of natural history film making for over 30 years.
UK weather: Snow forecast and warnings in place as temperatures plummet
...By Simon King & Marita MoloneyBBC WeatherTemperatures could drop to as low as -10C (14F) in parts of the UK on Friday with snow also forecast as the current cold snap continues...
UK cold snap persists with sub-zero nights to come
...By Simon King & Marie JacksonBBC Weather and BBC NewsMore bitterly cold nights are on the way for much of the UK, with temperatures set to drop well below zero...
Snow and ice warnings issued for large parts of UK
...By Simon King & George WrightBBC Weather and BBC NewsSnow and ice are set to sweep across large parts of the UK in a series of wintry showers...
UK braces for snow as cold weather takes a grip
... Lead BBC Weather presenter and meterologist Simon King said: " It s going to be a cold week with temperatures only around 2 to 7 degrees Celsius - which is below the average for the time of year...
Steve lights up UK skies alongside Northern Lights - but what's the difference?
...By Simon King & James GregoryBBC Weather and BBC NewsA message to everyone called Steve - your name was quite literally up in lights on Sunday night...
Northern Lights: England's skies glow in aurora spectacle
... " Aurora borealisBy BBC weather forecaster Simon King The aurora can happen any time of the year but a major factor to seeing it of course is having dark skies...
Temperatures reach 30C for first time this year in UK
... The BBC s lead weather presenter Simon King said temperatures hit 30...
China balloon: Could it have been blown off course as Beijing claims?
... BBC Weather s Simon King says that in the north Pacific between China and North America, the prevailing winds are westerlies (that is, from west towards the east)...
Steve lights up UK skies alongside Northern Lights - but what's the difference?
By Simon King & James GregoryBBC Weather and BBC News
A message to everyone called Steve - Your Name was quite literally up in Lights on Sunday Night .
Steve is shy and rarely appears in The Skies of the UK - There were reported sightings back in March and in
But Steve has returned, This Time illuminating The Skies over the north-east of England and Scotland.
The thin, purple ribbon, which was seen glowing in the sky in Northumberland, County Durham and Argyll, is a relatively new scientific discovery.
Steve is not an aurora but is often associated with its better known cousin, the Aurora Borealis - or Northern Lights - which was also captured across parts of the UK on Sunday.
The much rarer Steve has appeared in the pictures BBC Weather were sent from their Weather Watchers.
It has been photographed for decades but only got the name Steve in 2016, following a US citizen science project funded by Nasa and The National Science Foundation.
But why Steve ?The inspiration behind The Glow 's name is thought to be a scene from the animated movie " Over the Hedge".
In it, a group of animals awake from hibernation to find what to them is another awe-inspiring Phenomenon - a big garden hedge.
" What is this thing? " one creature says.
" I'd be a lot less afraid of it if I just knew what it was called, " another says, before a squirrel recommends calling it Steve .
" I'm a lot less scared of Steve , " Another Animal replies.
Scientists later adapted the name into an Acronym - " Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement".
And it's not just sky-watchers who have shown an interest in Steve .
In 2019, The Canadian government minted a collector's coin worth $20 featuring the mysterious streaks of light.
What is Steve ?Little was known about its formation and why it can sometimes appear during an aurora display.
Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has been studying Steve using pictures from the ground along with satellites.
While auroras happen globally in an oval shape, Steve appears as a ribbon and lasts for 20 Minutes to an hour before disappearing.
While Steve is only spotted in The Presence of an aurora, it is not a normal aurora as scientists suggests it comprises of a fast-moving stream of extremely hot particles called a subauroral ion drift, or SAID.
As Steve is unpredictable and only lasts for a Short Time , recording occurrences from the ground is rare.
The Phenomenon has been reported from the UK, Canada, northern US states and New Zealand , according to Nasa.
The Aurora Borealis was spotted right across the UK on Sunday Night .
Aurora watchers were alerted to a geomagnetic storm in the evening after a strong solar wind sent charged particles towards Earth.
These charged particles follow the magnetic pull into the North Pole and interacted with oxygen and nitrogen in our atmosphere to create The Greens , purples and reds associated with the Northern Lights .
While normally just seen at high latitudes such as Scotland, it was so strong it was captured on camera right across the UK.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com