Judith Ralston
{{short description|Scottish weather presenter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
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| birth_name = Judith Tonner
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| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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| nationality = Scottish
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| spouse = Fraser Ralston
| children = 3
| employer = BBC Scotland
| occupation = Weather presenter
| years_active = 1999–present
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| television = Reporting Scotland
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Judith Ralston (née Tonner) is a Scottish weather presenter employed by BBC Scotland, and a former singer.
Early life and music career
Ralston trained as a musician and studied singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow and then the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Her operatic singing career ended at 28 after a vocal injury.
Broadcasting career
In 1999, Ralston returned to Scotland as a traffic reporter at BBC Scotland; afterwards, she moved into news and weather presenting.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/about/newsid_8508000/8508268.stm|title=Judith Ralston|date=15 February 2010|publisher=BBC Scotland|accessdate=18 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920144347/http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/about/newsid_8508000/8508268.stm|archive-date=20 September 2010|url-status=dead}} She was listed as the third most popular weather presenter in a UK-wide vote in a 2017 Radio Times poll.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-05-30/tomasz-schafernaker-and-windy-wilson-voted-the-uks-favourite-weather-presenters/ |title=Tomasz Schafernaker and Windy Wilson voted the UK's favourite weather presenters |last=Doran |first=Sarah |date=30 May 2017 |website=Radio Times|access-date=9 February 2020 }}
In 2017, Ralston made a cameo appearance as herself in Series 4 Episode 6 of BBC Scotland’s [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09jgyy0 ‘Scot Squad’]
In 2025, Ralston co-presented Series 3 of BBC Scotland’s [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Scotland%27s+Greatest+Escape&d=programmes_ps ‘Scotland’s Greatest Escape’]
Personal life
She lives in Glasgow and is married to Fraser Ralston, a meteorologist. They have three children together.{{cite news|url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/twin-children-are-my-little-rays-of-sunshine-says-bbc-weather-presenter-judith-ralston/|work=Sunday Post|title=Twin children are my little rays of sunshine says BBC weather presenter Judith Ralston|publisher= DC Thomson Media|date=9 January 2017|author=Bill Gibb}}
References
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Category:Alumni of the Royal Northern College of Music
Category:BBC weather forecasters
Category:Television personalities from Edinburgh
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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