Factfile - Martin King

Name: Martin King

Name: Martin King

Age: 35

Occupation: Wacky Weather Man for tv3.

Lives: Rathfarnham, Dublin, with his partner Jenny McCarthy.

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Famous for: using an ironing board to illustrate the warm fronts. (Don't ask.)

Why in the news: his style has prompted RTE to rethink its own meteorological strategy.

Most likely to say: Phooargh! What a scorcher!!

Least likely to say: an anticyclone of 1,036 hecto Pascals over the North Sea is drifting slowly east while a depression in the mid-Atlantic approaches from the west . . .