BBC Breakfast had just come to an end, but before the programme wrapped, we heard some final comments from Carol Kirkwood.
“This is a forecast I’ve known for quite a while was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to present”, she says, getting visibly emotional.
She says that after 28 years “tracking storms, chasing sunshine and occasionally getting it completely wrong… I’m saying goodbye”.
To viewers, she says thank you for “the privilege and honour of welcoming me into your homes… Thank you for trusting me”
“You’ve been the constant in all of this, and I’ve never taken that for granted”.
There have been “bad hair days, and the occasional moment of pure chaos – and do you know what, I wouldn’t change a second of it”, she says.