Career
McCabe joined the BBC Weather team in September 2003 and started her training on new media forecasts working on the BBC Digital's interactive service and online. She completed the first part of her forecaster training at the Met Office College in 2004 and her advanced forecaster exams in 2005. She then presented forecasts across a number of BBC outlets, including BBC News, Radio 4, BBC World News and BBC One. McCabe was a main weather presenter for BBC News at Ten and occasionally presented the weather on the News at One.
In January 2006, she briefly gained some measure of notoriety in Scotland following a forecast where she told Rangers FC fans heading to their game to "wrap up warm if they are heading for Castle Grayskull". (Castle Grayskull is often used as a derogatory term for Ibrox Stadium by opposing football fans).
In November 2008, it was announced that she would be replacing Andrea McLean as GMTV's weather forecaster. In September 2010, McCabe joined GMTV's replacement Daybreak as a weather presenter and environment correspondent alongside Lucy Verasamy. On 7 February 2012 it was announced McCabe had left Daybreak.
On 22 June 2012 she joined BBC South as a weather forecaster.
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