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(Geoffrey) Philip Eden FRMetS (born 1951) is a leading British weather journalist and weather historian.
Philip Eden graduated from Birmingham University with a BA in Geography in 1972.
Eden was chief network weather presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live from 1994 to 2005. He has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph newspapers, and currently has a weekly column in the latter. Eden writes weekly features and monthly look-backs for WeatherOnline. He is author of two books on the history of British weather.
Philip Eden was Vice President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 2007 to 2009. Eden was awarded the Royal Meteorological Society's Gordon Manley Weather Prize in 2000. The prize is awarded annually for any outstanding contribution to Weather through a paper or papers, or other outstanding service to Weather, in the preceding five years that has furthered the public understanding of meteorology and oceanography. He has been Director of the Chilterns Observatory Trust since 2007.