Sara Thornton

Sara Thornton is a British journalist, meteorologist, and entrepreneur. She is known for her longtime association with BBC as a weather presenter.

Sara Thornton was born in Yorkshire, Northern England, and raised in the United States. She returned to the UK to take her A-levels and for higher education. She attended Lancaster University, Lancashire, England and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the English language, with a minor in Drama. For postgraduate, she studied journalism at Falmouth University, Falmouth, England, graduating with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism.

After finishing her Master's education, Thornton joined BBC as a trainee news reporter. She then joined ITV Anglia in January 2000. Initially working as a News Presenter and Reporter, she became Weather Presenter in January 2002. Later that year, in September, she also worked as an entertainment journalist for BBC Three's entertainment news show Liquid News, for 11 months. Liquid News, which was created by British TV executive Stuart Murphy, ran from May 2000 to April 2004. In 2005, Thornton briefly worked as Showbiz Reporter for BBC radio.

While working with ITV Anglia, Thornton made the news in March 2004 when she used some forbidden words on TV after noticing that she is working with a wrong map. "Oh, s*** that's the wrong map isn't it! Oh, f****ing hell." Incidentally, the show was broadcast during a break in ITV's All New TV's Naughtiest Blunders. Anglia TV spokesperson later explained that they played the wrong tape due to technical problems.

Thornton left ITV Anglia in December 2008 to become a weather presenter at BBC North East and Cumbria. The following summer, she became a weather presenter at BBC South Today. Since 2013, she has been covering BBC London and Southeast as a newsreader.

In 2017, Thornton and fellow BBC weather presenter John Hammond founded Weather Trending, a weather-focused content production and professional services firm based in London.

Sara Thornton married BBC news correspondent Jack Izzard in November 2003. The couple lives in Norwich, England with their two daughters.