Sarah Keith-Lucas

Sarah Dorothy Keith-Lucas (born 12 February 1982) is an English meteorologist and BBC weather presenter.

Early life

Keith-Lucas was born in Hastings, East Sussex in 1982. She is the daughter of Christopher Leslie Keith-Lucas (born 1949) and Claire Forrester. Her middle name comes from her grandmother Dorothy de Bauduy Robertson, who was killed in a road accident in 1979; Dorothy's husband was David Keith-Lucas, who was an aerodynamicist in Kent during World War II and president, from 1968 to 1969, of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Keith-Lucas has an older brother. Her mother stood for the SDP Alliance in May 1987 for the Northiam seat^[1] but lost to Conservatives.^[2]

For part of her education Keith-Lucas attended Cranbrook School, Kent,^[3] a co-educational state grammar school. She took her GCSEs at Robertsbridge Community College.^[4]

She studied geography at Durham University (Collingwood College).

Career

Keith-Lucas joined the Met Office in 2007 and started presenting the weather for BBC Weather in 2008. She has done the five-day weather on the BBC One series Countryfile. She also presents occasional weather-based documentaries on the BBC News and BBC World News channels Climate Check,^[5] and Weather World,^[6] which she co-presents with Nick Miller.

Keith-Lucas won an episode of Celebrity Mastermind that aired on 4 March 2023; her specialist subject was the 1986 film Labyrinth.^[7]

Keith-Lucas presented Heatwaves: The New Normal? a programme about the increasing frequency of heatwaves in the UK. It was first shown on the BBC News channel in June 2025 and on BBC2 in July 2025.^[8][9]