Wannabe weather girl takes internet by storm

NEV DeMarni seems ready whatever the weather as she fronts her one-woman forecasting channel

– from the garden of her suburban semi.

The former housing officer has become a social media sensation for her breezy 30-second weather videos.

Nev, 42, gets up at 6am, researches the day’s conditions on the Met Office website, writes a script, chooses an outfit and does her own make-up. She then films herself in the back garden of her home in Chigwell, Essex.

Nev uses a phone mounted on a tripod next to her fish pond, then uses an app to do graphic notes around her image.

The former child model and DJ began forecasting after her job with a housing association ended last February. She said:

“I just break it down and make it as conversational and as easy to understand as possible,” she said.

“I don’t want to bore people with weather fronts and isobars. And to be honest, I don’t have the time.”

She says she has fans across London “and if ever I’m a minute late, they are straight on to me”.

Nev studied geography at school in north London before taking a performing arts course at Barnet College alongside Spice Girl Emma Bunton.

Her weather hobby led to a slot on Daily Express columnist Vanessa Feltz’s Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London.

She joked that so many rely on her she is worried about taking a holiday. “I’ll just have to do it from the beach wherever I am.”