"Hello, my clicker's playing up. Oh well, it's that time of year," he said before launching straight back into the weather forecast.

Brown, who has been presenting the weather for twenty years, said he was off to buy a new clicker after the show. Credit:Seven

Like Ten's Magdalena Roze, and Seven's Jane Bunn, Brown is a meteorologist as well as a presenter.

His training certainly paid off as he delivered statewide temperatures and rainfall stats in places as far flung as Wangaratta all from memory and with a sense of humour.

"For Victoria, if we had a map we could show you, but you'll just have to believe me," he laughed.