Helga van Leur

Dienstag, 08. September 1970

Helga van Leur (born 8 September 1970) is a Dutch meteorologist. Born in Schoonhoven, she is best known for presenting the weather predictions during the news broadcast at RTL 4. Van Leur studied Bodem, Water en Atmosfeer (environmental studies) at Wageningen University. She started working in 1994 at through an internship, where she produced weather predictions for newspapers, radio and television. Between 1997 and 2017, she worked (freelance) as one of the main weather presenters for the TV channels of RTL Nederland - most notably during the news broadcasts. She allegedly presented some 7000 weather messages during news broadcasts. In 1998 she was recognized by her colleagues as 'best weather presenter of the world', and she was elected most popular weather presenter of the Netherlands