Brockway has celebrated his roots on screen, referring to the Vale of Glamorgan town as “Barrybados”, and regularly throws in Welsh language greetings and phrases, such as “shwmae”, meaning “hello”.
He studied A-levels at Barry Boys Comprehensive in maths, physics and geology with a plan to work in meteorology.
However, Brockway’s love of the weather dates back even further. It was at the age of eight, during the long hot summer of 1976, that he first became fascinated with isobars and anticyclones.
He described driving his parents “bonkers” as he watched all weather reports and says he always wanted to work with the weather.
His first job came in September 1986 when he joined the Met Office as an observer at Cardiff Weather Centre, with spells following at Cardiff and Birmingham airports.
He also spent eight months in the Falkland Islands in 1993 observing the weather for RAF aircrafts, including Hercules, Sea Kings and Chinooks.
In 1995, Brockway became a forecaster at Birmingham Weather Centre and presenting on the radio.
There was a brief stint in London, GMTV in 1996, as well as working as an environmental consultant for the Met Office in Bracknell.
But home was calling him back, and he joined BBC Wales Today in September 1997, and never looked back, apart from to look at the weather map.