Your Granada Weather Team
Jo Blythe
Jo has presented the weather on ITV since 2001. It is her dream job, which she combines with being a mum to two small children.
Follow Jo on Twitter: @JoBlytheTV
Emma Jesson
Frequently recognised for her sunny “Bye Bye” sign-off, Emma is one of the longest serving weather presenters at ITV. She started as a colourful, quirky regular on national breakfast television, and has had her head in the clouds - and ITV Weather regions - since 1992, also presenting countryside programmes. Emma’s always had a keen interest in the weather, especially since she hails from the North West where there is rather a lot of it... She originally trained to be a vet, but side-stepped into TV. As she made the leap from vet to met, she found that working with exotic species gave her quite a good grounding for a career in television… Emma has done every job behind the camera, and worked as a radio journalist before achieving her ambition of joining the ITV Weather team - and for many years, swimming with sealions, flying acrobatic planes, diving with sharks and abseiling off very tall buildings was all in a day’s work!
Somewhat prophetically, her first ever radio report involved covering the hottest day of the year and frying an egg on the pavement – two of her favourite interests, weather and cooking! When she's not scratting around in the garden or the kitchen, this one-woman wildlife feeding station enjoys dinner and a musical, languages and observational comedy, reformer pilates - and when there’s time - sleeping.
Follow Emma on Twitter: @EmmaJessonTV
Tori Lacey - ITV News Granada
Tori Lacey is a meteorologist and weather presenter working for ITV News.
She obtained an honours degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Bradford, graduating in June 1995.
Following the start of her professional career in the life science and pharmaceutical sectors, Tori joined the Met Office in 2000, where she trained as a meteorologist. She was subsequently posted to the BBC Weather Centre in April 2001, and began her media weather broadcasting career - initially on BBC World and then later on the BBC News channel, as well as the range of national BBC radio stations and including a lengthy stint exclusively for BBC Radio 5 Live.
Tori stayed at the BBC for ten years, leaving in January 2011, when she moved overseas with her family. They resided in Italy and then Dubai until 2020, returning back to the UK at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
She later joined the ITV weather team in February 2023. Tori is one of ITV's weekend weather presenters for Calendar, Granada, Tyne Tees & Border regions.
At the time of joining Tori said "I am extremely happy to be able to return to the world of media broadcasting and weather forecasting after such a long hiatus!"
Tori and her family are passionate dog lovers and strive to adopt dogs that are in need of a loving home.
They now live in West Yorkshire and feel very lucky to be living in such a beautiful part of the country, enjoying the rural dog walks and very lovely local pubs!