Galician meteorologist Pilar Sanjurjo The chain he belongs to and his whereabouts died this Wednesday, as reported by TVE. It became very popular in the 70s and 80s aspect first woman to present weather information in the history of Spanish television.
Sanjurjo belonged to the generation of the first presenters of the time on public television, such as Mariano Medina and Eugenio Martín Rubio.helped viewers better understand atmospheric phenomena“, TVE emphasized.
Galician came to the public institution from the hands of Martín Rubio, whom he replaced during a vacation. She became the first woman to present the weather forecast on RTVE. Later, Sanjurjo joined the defunct National Meteorological Institute (INM), which since 2008 was transformed into the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).
In the government agency, he served as the shift chief of the INM National Forecasting Center until his retirement in the early 2000s.
An expert in marine forecasting, among its merits is also aOne of the first women to join an expedition to Antarcticastudied the effects of the hole in the ozone layer.