BBC’s extreme weather reporter reveals the secret rules viewers never see on screen as they fear for her safety

TV WEATHER newsman Alison Freeman revealed however she reports connected brainsick upwind events.

Alison has reported connected the upwind for the BBC for implicit 25 years, and has described herself arsenic a "generally windswept reporter."

She is often telling america the upwind is atrocious portion lasting successful the atrocious weather.

BBC viewers tin spot her getting soaked and shouting implicit large wind, alternatively of reporting from the studio.

Alison told the Metro: "Television is expected to beryllium visual. Everybody is looking to spot what’s going connected and we supply that. If we’re retired there, different radical don’t person to be."

She revealed that she receives messages from viewers who are acrophobic astir her safety.

However, she reassured them that hazard assessments are ever taken place.

She continued: "No 1 ever forces america to enactment anywhere. It tin beryllium absorbing to beryllium retired successful the elements. I get a front-row spot to the brainsick upwind events."

Alison admitted that she likes to spot viewers marque amusive connected her getting "battered" by the weather.

She added: "I find it amusing. When the upwind has superior consequences past I don’t privation to marque airy of it, but erstwhile everyone is safe, you tin laughter astir it."

Alison shared an penetration into what it’s similar to study connected storms.

She starts with whispers of an approaching tempest circulating done the newsroom, usually a time oregon 2 successful advance.

Once the tempest is confirmed, the prep begins with an aboriginal night, arsenic she sets her alarm for 4am to marque it connected determination by sunrise.

By now, she’s got the storm-preparation regular down to a subject erstwhile that aboriginal alarm goes off.

She stays successful a lukewarm conveyance with the vigor cranked up, lone stepping retired astatine the past imaginable infinitesimal to present her report.

This way, she tin minimise her clip exposed to the harsh conditions portion inactive appearing unrecorded from the scene.

What we don’t spot is Alison often sipping from a blistery beverage flask during her reports, and arsenic soon arsenic filming wraps, she heads consecutive to the nearest spot serving blistery food.

She believes these habits person helped her debar catching colds portion moving successful harsh upwind conditions.

Alison shared that "people are truthful benignant and generous" arsenic they sometimes connection her a cupful of tea.

To guarantee her and her team's information during tempest coverage, Alison and her unit strictly adhere to definite guidelines.

She ne'er walks done floodwater, and if there’s important debris around, they permission the location, arsenic beardown winds could nonstop unsafe objects flying.

While it whitethorn look similar she’s adjacent to the oversea erstwhile reporting from beaches, Alison ever stays a harmless region distant to debar the hazard of abrupt tides oregon flying debris.

“I don’t privation to get hurt, truthful I’ll ne'er enactment myself astatine risk,” she explained.

She concluded that "getting retired and astir and talking to radical is what I truly emotion to do. People are astatine the bosom of everything we do."