Becoming "quite windy you'll notice" hmmm yes slight understatement that Mr Fish lol

@666Tomato666

6 жыл бұрын

Typical deadpan British humour

@Ollie-lz5hr

4 жыл бұрын

666Tomato666 English humour is the best humour probably a yank u are

@martinen.5025

3 жыл бұрын

To understate or not to understate, That is the question No one does understatement like us! 😂🤣🇬🇧

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

I blame a good friend of mine who is nicknamed Windy (being appropriately named Gail). She lives up to her meteorological nomenclature!

@stejjie

Жыл бұрын

You'll notice it, when your roof's in next door's garden...

him: “oh just a little bit of wind” as roof of studio gets blown off into the horizon

@gavinburns9516

3 жыл бұрын

Michael 🐟

@7IR_0_bs

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@roseanncampbell7294

2 жыл бұрын

yes, just a flesh wound

@angelacooper2661

9 күн бұрын

Everyone knows it's Windy!

The next morning, our summerhouse was in next door neighbours garden.

@jamesmay7953

9 жыл бұрын

Only in amer- wait... the UK

@jayeshgupta9568

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Bartlett I

@kreigdernier9553

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Bartlett twas just a flesh wound

@mrbump28

6 жыл бұрын

Not caused by a hurricane

@AutPen38

6 жыл бұрын

I remember the big fundraising effort afterwards when there were telethons around the world, because so many people needed new summerhouses.

I was 7 at the time. The wind was sucking my window panes in and out with this hideous hissing sound as the air was forced through the frames, and I could see the glass bending in and out with the wind. It was terrifying. I thought the glass was going to shatter all over me so I ran away. I woke up the next day to find our windows held but there was a huge oak tree on our roof.

@jamieschroeder998

7 жыл бұрын

n mk!!

@scottishguy924

7 жыл бұрын

i was not that long out of my mothers waters then well 85

@MM-kq2rt

6 жыл бұрын

I was 7 too

@si4632

6 жыл бұрын

i was 11 i slept through it but the day off school was good climbing those huge trees that had fallen

@pmarmify

6 жыл бұрын

I still live in the new forest & at the time of the 87 storm I had a paper round. Papers were late but got through. There was a bus shelter in the middle of the road & hug trees all over the road. My home was vibrating at peak of the wind, scary

When Mr Fish shuffles off this mortal coil THIS is what he will be remembered for the poor bastard!

@dicktate964

4 жыл бұрын

lmao very true ;)

@fifthof1795

3 жыл бұрын

...and his dreadful fashion style and comb-over

@nathan87

3 жыл бұрын

@@fifthof1795 I just realised he had a combover. A combover on that head of hair that can't even be seen from the front. That's actually hilarious.

😂😂😂who else is here in feb 2022 reliving Michael fish famous gaffe after hearing about storm Eunice?

@michaeltownley9144

2 жыл бұрын

Yep haha

@40ny

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Don't forget to watch "John Kettley Is A Weatherman" also.

It depends exactly where you were as to whether or not you'd sleep through it. I was 18 at the time and remember it well. We lived at the top of a hill about 35 miles South of London as the crow flies. It woke us up at about 4am and we got up to look outside. We (in hindsight foolishly) went and stood in the front garden to get a good view and watched our neighbour's shed roof fly down the road. Out the back we watched as our lovely huge Greengage tree toppled over - fortunately parallel to the house.In the morning we walked about a mile and a half along the road to go and feed our ponies and had to climb over 15 fallen trees to get there. We walked a different way home and saw a house with its gable end completely blown out so that you could see into the unfortunate owner's bedroom! Oh I wish I had taken my camera with me that day. It was quite something.It may not have been a 'hurricane' in one sense of the word, but it must have been hurricane force winds as Jon Brererton said. And as for poor Mr Fish. How can we blame him? Our weather here is very fickle. Even nearly 30 years later the forecasts aren't much more accurate really are they?

@katiejones3814

5 жыл бұрын

I was living in London at the time (Vauxhall) and it was definitely very stormy overnight but it didn't stop me sleeping as normal. I woke up to a power cut in the morning but still thought nothing of it at the time. Like a muppet, I went to work anyway (my work was within walking distance). It was only seeing all the uprooted trees as I walked that it really hit home just how serious the storm had been!

@celticguy197531

4 жыл бұрын

you would've been on the Surrey Hills then, i dont remember much of the storm but i know we got a day off lol and lots of trees down since i am from Surrey myself there

@pauly362

2 жыл бұрын

I live greengage pie and custard. First ever had it at my local pie n mash lol

@faiscacapoeira5

2 жыл бұрын

Guildford by any chance?

@naysmith5272

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it lifted our neighbours shed roof off and dumped it somewhere else in his garden. Our shed survived unscathed and I think the rabbits hutch and run survived in-situ. Tiles were blown down from our school roof. I can't remember if school was closed before we got there or we turned away. I think the headmaster turned up early, was concerned about the stuff that had coming down from the roof so wouldn't let anyone near the building.

"And to all the ppl phoning in about a hurricane,no there won't be a hurricane" 3 hours later "oh crap"

@David.L291

4 жыл бұрын

oh what you're on about, it's just a bit of a breeze :)

@Gigidepp9

3 жыл бұрын

Well he was right, there would be no hurricane. Its impossible for them to form around the uk.

@markholmes6771

3 жыл бұрын

There wasn't an hurricane.don't get hurricanes in UK.

@albear3592

2 жыл бұрын

The person phoning in was my Aunt.

I was 17, and had gone to the woods at night with some friends to hang out like we did in the 80's. Trees were literally blowing down, it was epic!

@reedermusic3927

2 жыл бұрын

man what an experience that must've been. the danger :D

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

You were the same age as me, then. It was memorable for another reason - my brother's 20th birthday!

@dannyH84

2 жыл бұрын

That didn’t happen did it? Just be honest

@faiscacapoeira5

2 жыл бұрын

@@dannyH84 it actually did happen Danny, you can Google it to verify my story if you're that way inclined 😂

@John-sd5he

8 ай бұрын

@@dannyH84😂😂😂😂love it I’m late ⏰ but still love it

14 at the time remembered watching that forecast before heading off to bed to wake up to 7 trees fallen down in our street and school shut with the roof blown off

The weather forecast back in the 80's was so much better, life is crap and everything convoluted now. Those clouds on the map bought back so much nostalgia for me. Born in 1980 so I was 7 at the time but still remember well this forecast.

@Megalocade

2 жыл бұрын

I agree though I remember a time when they had a map of england and they used to take the clouds, sun and other symbols and stick them manually on the map like fuzzy felts lol long before computers

@stephensnell5707

2 жыл бұрын

@@Megalocade you are incorrect as the modern weather maps are 30x better and way more understandable and because they are computerised the whole globe can be shown

@user-in6im1lx2e

9 ай бұрын

no they're awful just blobs @@stephensnell5707

The Prodigy would be inspired to create a masterpiece because of this! Thank you Liam Howlett!

@theweatherstudio9101

Жыл бұрын

They were inspired to create music because of a storm?

@Prodigy_Fan

Жыл бұрын

@@theweatherstudio9101 The Prodigy sampled Michael Fish's dodgy weather forecast for their track called 'Weather Experience' which was on their first album.

heading for a repeat tomorrow by the looks of it , cheers Eunice !

@jamiew1664

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah bob, that’s what made me wanna look up this video for a giggle too.

Technically he was correct, it wasn't a hurricane, it was an intense low pressure system with hurricane FORCE winds. However, it unexpectedly (by the standards of forecast predictions in those days) shifted northwards.

@daniellowell2157

9 жыл бұрын

metafis Close. It was defined as "extratropical storm," but all it was was a big wind & rain event for the Southern and Eastern Counties.

@jamesmay7953

8 жыл бұрын

Well, it was a low pressure system of 969 millibars, and if something like that was coming to me I would board up my windows and get some emergency supplies

@daniellowell2157

8 жыл бұрын

Addison Kline I would, too. I live in Connecticut, and we get like five or six storms of this magnitude annually. I'm used to it.

@jamesmay7953

8 жыл бұрын

I live in Connecticut too... coincidence? I think not!

@daniellowell2157

8 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. Storms of the magnitude we get here in CT are much less common over in Europe.

I can remember watching the news and couldn't believe the damage this storm caused. We had virtually nothing where i lived (Worcestershire) i can remember it being rainy and windy but nothing out of the ordinary. It just shows how intense, tightly packed and localised the low pressure was.

@chatteyj

6 жыл бұрын

Same in Devon the 87 storm wasn't that bad, but the 89 storm was a different story it was as powerful as the centre of the 87 storm and much damage was caused where I lived.

@paulfrost8895

11 ай бұрын

I was living in Boston Mass (85 to 90) remember trying to ring my folks in London and not being able to get through due to power outage ' wonder what it must have been like ' scary I should imagine.

@Canadian_Skeptical

10 ай бұрын

Well you still had sauce!

Just thought I'd watch this classic after the recent forecasts for some strong winds tomorrow 😂

@andrewfishpool89

2 жыл бұрын

Me to. 😂

@jamiew1664

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that’s why I’m here too!!

@40ny

2 жыл бұрын

I had to pay my annual visit also, after Storm Eunice last night. And I never forget to watch the video for "John Kettley Is A Weatherman" either, just for old times' sake.

30 years today since those immortal words were uttered!

30 years on and another storm is on its way... has anyone got the number for the BBC?

@genshin.impact.journey1876

3 жыл бұрын

look it up on google :)

I remember the hurricane well and seeing Michael Fish go down in weather history for the blunder of all time. I was a 17 year old YTS trainee then and it was my brother's 20th birthday!

@slinkiegirl2001

2 жыл бұрын

me to you must be 51 now i had just turned 16 and i remember waking up to what i thought was what looked like beirut the following day the storm yesterday brought it all back

@angelacooper2661

2 жыл бұрын

@@slinkiegirl2001 Yes, I am now fifty one (fifty two in four months), so you would be 16 months younger than me!

@jamesdwebb

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't a blunder, technically he was corrects. a severe storm with hurricane force winds, it wasn't actually a hurricane

@czech-street-workout4193

9 ай бұрын

Holy shit me too 17 on YTS 32.50 quid a week haha

I miss him

Imagine that today! Count how many trampolines and wheelie bins have congregated in to your swimming pool!!!! 🖖

@gavinburns9516

3 жыл бұрын

Michael 🐟

Classic!! I never knew he came out with it right at the start.

@cjw6659

2 жыл бұрын

he went full send.

Ahh the memories 😂 I remember riding to school on my bike during that hurricane he said wouldn’t happen 😂 I was literally doing 50 mph in one direction and about 4mph the other 😂😂😂

@stephensnell5707

2 жыл бұрын

You are so dumb It WASN'T A HURRICANE AT ALL AS THOSE FORM ONLY IN THE TROPICS AND THE STORM THAT BATTERED THE SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND IN OCTOBER 1987 DID NOT FORM ANYWHERE NEAR THE TROPICAL REGIONS IT ACTUALLY FORMED IN THE BAY OF BISCAY

My dad and grandparents slept right through it. Grandad was only woken up by the sound of his neighbour's chestnut tree being uprooted and hurled across his driveway, and he immediately fell asleep again. Only realised what it was when he found both of his cars had been crushed under said tree in the morning 😄

I was studying all the records from the Met office before and after the storm. Micheal's forecast was correct only to a very small extent. Apparently at the time they didn't know the jetstream which is a river of fast flowing air wasn't where it should be. It was sitting on the whole English channel, not in Scotland. The storm started as a small to middle size feature in the bay of Biscay, the met office spotted it and plotted a track. The storm moved along it as planned but then the jetstream accelerated hard and the pressure of the storm dropped abruptly. At the same time, warm sub tropical air swept northwards from Spain and behind the depression. The storm developed and intensified quickly and turned left then it sprinted northwards with winds over 90-100 mph (made worse by its forward speed). It exited via the wash (East Anglia) and still the next morning Micheal Fish hadn't the slightest clue of what happened.

@weeardguy

2 жыл бұрын

This storm was a so-called weatherbomb because of the rapid increase in wind-speeds and rapid decrease of air-pressure. The January 25, 1990 storm is 'The Great Storm' in The Netherlands. Where the 1987 storm in the UK led to better training of meteorologists to foresee the structures that creates these storms, the January 25, 1990 storm in The Netherlands had the same effect: computermodels of that time completely overlooked the possible scenario's. In The Netherlands, we call these type of storms Channelrats, as they usually bash our coastline for a prolonged time as they form over the Channel and make their way accordingly. January 25 had a forecast for force 10 winds, but eventually, as the day progressed and it became clear to our Met Office (KNMI) that it was far stronger than expected, warnings were issued for force 11 winds, quickly surpassed by force 12 winds. Surveys later showed that the public in The Netherlands had no idea what to do exactly with such 'strong language' and didn't act accordingly. As that storm reached maximum intensity during the evening peak, 17 lives were lost. This has caused forecasters to better explain terms used in their forecast-talk and eventually led to the 'Weatheralarm': only issued when weather would be dangerous to life, large-scale damage was to be expected and that normal life would be disrupted. This still exists, but since a number of years, the (already common in other countries by then) yellow and orange warnings have been added. I was not even 2 years old at the time but vividly remember it: my grandma was visiting me and had come by public transport. As trains ceased to operate and buses were nearly being blown over and thus did not operate anymore as well, she called my grandpa. He (the idiot that he can be) didn't want to risk his car and thus would not come to pick her up. In hindsight, it's better that he didn't, but he should have kept the real reason of him staying inside and just make up some excuse. Multiple trees got uprooted and a home near us just saw its rooftiles fly in rapid succession after the wind got hold of the first one. I went outside during storm Eunice this Friday and it was quite the experience to feel how some gusts shortly made me lose contact with the ground, to be put back down again about 10 centimeters further. Even holding my tripod with the videocamera (about 15 kilo of extra weight) didn't help: both me and the tripod were moved by the wind. What made Eunice unique to The Netherlands was its completely different wind-pattern: the warnings for the highest gusts were out for the coastal-regions. In reality, the highest gusts were recorded landinwards... (about 40 km landinwards, a 145 km/h was recorded, an absolute record: it's the first time such a strong gust was recoded so deeply landinwards. The fact that storm Eunice has made its way into the top 3 of most severe storms in The Netherlands, where January 25, 1990 still holds the number 1 position, is just staggering to me: I just can't imagine how bad it must have been.

@connynielson8686

Жыл бұрын

Dont even think it is a meteorological issue but they insist to downplay forecast ; for instance if its blowing 30 mph they will report its 20 mph or less, and wont correct it whilst its happening- dont seem to think they owe boat people, transport workers or fisherman accurate forecasts cos it's a downer for viewers watching the news or something....very odd...and dangerous

My family & I had just arrived at Calais after touring Europe. Preparing for the ferry crossing to Dover. En route to Walton on Thames the storm exploded causing widespread damage huge trees downed - their roots exposed to the air. So much for this blithe weather forecast.

He was only responsible for what the Met Office computer was telling him at the time. I was 29 that week and can recall the entire area around Bracknell Forest was devastated. The Southern Rail network power was actually switched off completely. It was very frightening.....and to add more misery we had a financial crash as well!

@kimgeddes2319

2 жыл бұрын

How's Gale? 😂

@GibbonsTake

2 жыл бұрын

So they purposely underreported the storm to run cover for the crash they knew was coming.

I remember this well, was in hospital at the time and so amongst the few who had access to the TV channels that eventually came back on air! Bloody hell what a night!

We lost 2 roof tiles that night. Lest we forget

The main problem was they only had satellite images to go on for these forecasts. They didn't have weather buoys in the sea to the SW like we do now, and the financial cutbacks meant they had no weather boat either, like we do now. Nowadays there's a special budget dedicated to storm watching to make sure this never happens again, so now we get much more accurate forecasts. Poor old Fishy was just doing his job as best as he could, but everyone beats him up about it, poor chap.

@188basstrom

6 жыл бұрын

Good ole Maggy

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

But they are still as inaccurate beyond 3 days when it's not a continuation of the normal pattern.

I was living in North London at the time. I woke up in the night and noticed it was a bit windy and went back to bed. I only started to realise what had happened on the bus into work and there were trees down in Gower Street. I didn't listen to the radio or watch telly before going to work so I had no idea anything unusual had happened.

Wow, I was 15 and remember this storm being the top story on news stations in the United States ( I lived in Pittsburgh, PA at that time).

@lukeyduke9732

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! That is interesting.

12 years old, slept through it and remember the sheer excitement and joy of an unexpected day off school.

I remember waking up after the storm . All my garden fences were uprooted and my local pub had severe damage because a tree had been blown over in to its roof . I worked at ford's Dagenham at the time and the building was physically moving cos of the wind and the power supply was cut do to power restriction due to heavy demand in the Dagenham area and local area

Where is Miuchael Fish when you need him, this week we need him for inform us for Hurricane Lorenzo.

@David.L291

4 жыл бұрын

the wrong spelling looks hilarious lol

One of the greatest days of my childhood. Utter destruction outside trees everywhere Spent the whole day off school climbing downed trees and running in the wind

@duncanfsimpson

2 жыл бұрын

We lived in broadstairs

Lol when you only had 4 channels and this was the only source of weather reports available, 🙂the good old days

@paulcaswell2813

2 жыл бұрын

Fish was employed by the Met Office (a part of the MoD), so the forecast would have been the official one for the Armed Services also. Imagine if there'd been a major RAF exercise at the time...

I remember the storm when it happened as well. Even though I was only 4 years old at the time I remember being in my bedroom late at night and hearing a strong whistling noise which scared me a bit. The next morning I remember my parents taking me to the garage in our home and showing me the damage the storm had done to our garage and had blown down some of our garage wall.

@Anonymous-kq8oh

4 жыл бұрын

What people fail to realise though was that there was a lot of small tornadoes inside this storm but for obvious reasons (night time) you couldn’t see them. That was probably the hissing sound you experienced. 15 million trees fell over southern England. Crazy amount.

Anyone else brought here by storm Eunice? Blew me all the way back to 1987!

I remember this day... I went out for a few beers and ended up getting blown all around the town I lived in..classic cock up....L.O.L

"..said she heard there's a hurricane on the way. Well, if you're watching, don't worry there isn't." The same day hit south England the worst storm since 1703 and the fourth worst of all time with winds up to 217km/h

@albear3592

2 жыл бұрын

This was my Aunt, he was referring to. She had such great knowledge of the weather and nature etc and kept a fancy weather equipment.

Who else is here coz of Storm Eunice ?!!!!

@johnkelly1083

2 жыл бұрын

Storm Eunice is media hysteria

30 years ago tonight. Does not seem possible. I spent the night watching trees and garden sheds fly by. I made it in to work the next day and relieved the night shift in operations.

@laustin7204

9 ай бұрын

Was it like one of the scenes in The Wizard of Oz?

Poor old Mike. He never lived it down.

It was nice to see him being Interviewed on the same topic on itv This Morning today.

I was 17 years old that year and lived in North West London, and I usually stay up late to watch the final forecast and it had been updated so I knew it was going to be an exciting night ! Then it arrived and I've never witnessed anything so intensely strong as this storm ! The sounds of the wind and all the debris through the air was a sound I can never forget it was so unusual and very loud. The mean wind speed apparently didn't go below 54mph. I could hear the sounds of many trees being uprooted during the night. But the sound of the wind was in-cre-di-ble. Even before this event, I was fascinated by meteorology since I was a child. My dream job was to be a meteorologist 🌪️⛈️🌤️

@GP5E

2 жыл бұрын

did you get the job?

He absolutely hates that being repeated. My sister lived in Kent. Her guttering blew off and was never found.

With the stormy weather today i remember his weatherforecast. >What a terrible storm it was.

This was in some places a good example of good coming out of bad. There was a wooded hilltop in East Surrey which had all its trees blown down, a disaster for local people who loved the woodland. But a few years later we realised that we had a heath instead, a rare habitat in that part of Surrey. The views were much better too. It has probably returned to woodland by now.

I was 10 years old and my sister was 7 we had 2 beds in 1 room and were both scared. My dad went down to check our dog out brought her in after power got cut off around 3.30. Didn't go school the next day

Why ever can't BBC find good clear weather readers like this anymore.

@helensleepclare4694

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Okay, I’m here because my textbooks listening task was about this forecast. And I was so interested in watching original..

I was 21 years old, living in North London and watching this storm from my friend and his girlfriends window in the early hours of the storm.. my friend, at one point said "look! some old lady has fallen over" It was so dark outside because of the blackout, you really could not tell what was going on outside... but as the morning wore on you could see the damage the storm did.

18/02/2022 here i am 34 years later it never gets old

I was very young in the 87 hurricane and my dad had to hold my hand really tight as the wind was literally lifting me off my feet . I saw a motorhome explode/implode as it was driving due to the wind pressure , the contents spilled all over the road and the yellow insulation was like candyfloss in the wind . The motorhome nearly crashed but managed to pull over . The driver was trying to recover items from all over the road nearly getting ran over in the process . The scariest thing for me was seeing whole a whole roof flapping on a house the ripping and banging was unreal , slates falling off and smashing on the floor , then with one big gust the whole roof ripped off and came down about 100 yards away smashing ontop of several parked cars . My dad had to go to our Church built of stone in the 13th century and we had to go up into the tower to chock the bells as the wind was swinging them . The whole tower had movement when the giant bells would swing about anyway , in a storm it was terrifying . Bells chocked and we struggled to get home . The aftermath looked like a war zone near us , trees down, smashed / abandoned cars roofs off ...terrible . The casualty / mortality list COULD have been lower if the damned weather forecasters did their jobs correctly .

I wish I was born and at least 10 to remember and experience it

He took the blame, but someone else was actually the provider of the forecast!😢

yes mate " lots of rain "

The morning of the storm I got up and switched on the breakfast news with the dire warnings that people should not leave home to go to work. My first reaction was to think that a nuclear attack had taken place. When learning that it was a weather event I glanced outside to find that it was calm.

I was 4 I'm still 4

My mum was 5 I’m learning about natural disasters and she showed me this video “just some wind”

I remember as a 16 year old waking up the next morning with the power off and the front door swinging open, couldn't get out of our village in Hampshire for three days because of all the fallen trees. Had to find out what the hell happened on a battery powered radio. Managed to sleep through it all though, which is weird, now I would be awake all night in a storm.

@lukeyduke9732

2 жыл бұрын

I was 6 at the time, also living in Hampshire. We had fun on all those trees that were blown over though didn’t we! lol

I remember that storm, we were living at a cottage in essex, it was horrendous, we woke up to trees down, the kids all came into our bed, we had a large garden that was littered with debris, took a whole day to clear up, but thankfully the home was ok 👍

@UnknownPersononGoogle

8 ай бұрын

My dad lived in Basildon and he said the next morning he walked to work and trees were down everywhere and a hedge from someone’s garden was in the middle of the road.

now, i know who he is [finally]. 📺 every time i see that ep of 'vicar of dibley', i wonder. so, o.k. thanx!

A Low Pressure System that passed by us here in Ireland recently was recorded at 928 mbar which I heard was/is one of the deepest low Pressure Systems ever recorded here. It was mainly Western Ireland that got it but that said the Weather it gave the Country as a whole was just horrendous.

Where we live the wind hit 110 MPH !

@chatteyj

6 жыл бұрын

JTSKI Yeah sure.

@dvidclapperton

6 жыл бұрын

But it wasn't technically a hurricane

The woman was asking if there was a hurricane because her daughter was going to America I watched this as I was out of work and stayed up late, I feel sorry for Michael each time this comes up

The woman Michael Fish commented on was in fact my Aunty, whom since passed. She knew alot about nature and off course the weather.

@jamiew1664

2 жыл бұрын

No way! Did you come to this video because of the storm we are just about to have today??

@FadeToBlack888

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamiew1664 he's lying

@jamiew1664

2 жыл бұрын

@@FadeToBlack888 how do u know?

I worked in a Manor House restaurant at the time my rooms were in the old servants quarters (look for the horn of plenty in gulworthy on google maps satellite view) the building had an unusual glass roof connecting 2 parts of the building over a central corridor. As the hurricane kicked off there were trees coming down all around, I came out my room into this central corridor as a huge old slate tile smashed through the roof, covered me in glass and buried itself in the floor boards a centimetre in front of my bare toes...ahhh the good old days!

32 years ago today. And, given the technology of the time, he wasn't wrong. With the "improvements" these days he would be forecasting a heatwave :(

@cjw6659

2 жыл бұрын

The forecast was badly wrong.

I so remember this night. I was staying at my girlfriend's house opposite Kew Gardens in London. I pulled the curtains tight across the windows because. genuinely thought they would blow in. The next morning there were large trees down everywhere....and cars underneath them. Never known such strong winds again.

The full facts about what Michael said have been so twisted over the years. This was a recorded forecast, and for some unknown reason, the BBC cut out some of what Michael had said re the hurricane. It was to do with a hurricane hitting Florida (or not, as the truth be known) the BBC cut the vital information from the recording, and it all fell in place for the public to be all over him after the great storm that night. While it was true, they had failed to pick up the sudden change in synoptics, Bill Giles, the chief forecaster for the BBC, was the last one to do a broadcast (the very night it hit) - it should have been him that took all of the flack that Michael took, and still takes to this day.

@Knightoftheorient

7 жыл бұрын

It's not 1 man's responsibility it was the entire team at the Met Office to blame for failing to forecast it accurately, having said that nobody can exactly blame them for broadcasting the data that was supplied to them, what else was they supposed to do, go against it and take a guess on gut instincts ?...

@Beach_comber

2 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting claim, and I've heard Michael Fish say this on the radio, many years later. I don't see how it's consistent with this video though. He seems to be giving a regular British weather forecast and links the hurricane story to it. Why would people watching a British weather forecast be worried about a hurricane hitting Florida?

That storm made him look a right nob

I was 5 years old when this happened and parents had me tucked up in bed but next morning half our roof was gone and my dads cortina had been smashed by a tree, I don’t remember much else but love hearing other people tell me about it all

I was 21 at the time and remember stepping outside and attempting to a steep lean into the wind (think Micheal Jackson Smooth Criminal) and sure enough, the wind held me up.

TO EVERYONE WHOS SAYING THAT HE IS HORRIBLE: He Is not my grandad knows him very well and he was told to say all this not him making it all up on the spot! SO IF ANYONE IS ANNOYED WITH HIM THEYL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ME!

@notquiteatory971

5 жыл бұрын

thunderpig You’re probably...like 5 years old

@simonmoore2380

3 жыл бұрын

You're Michael Fish's personal bodyguard?

BBC were always good for the weather We always watched the farming weather on Sunday as it was the most accurate

I was 8 at the time and was abroad on holiday. When we left we had a green house. When we got back we had a green house with no glass

I was 11 or 12 when it happened and lived in the Midlands. My dad lived in Orpington in Kent and I went to see him 1 or 2 weeks after the storm and was literly stunned by the amount of damage.. The amount of trees ripped out of there roots was shocking. Considering I was only a hundred miles away from what had happened I thought it was crazy.

Fish: "if you're watching, don't worry." The Great Storm: "hold my beer, I'm about to ruin this man's whole career."

was 10 at the time and i slept through the whole thing - my mum still can't believe it!

The funniest part is years later he completely denied this, claiming that it had been taken out of context and/or people remembered incorrectly 🙄

here from Business Blaze video :) OgBB

"Quite windy as the night goes on" lol

I was only 3 but I remember it! My dad got trapped under a security gate and we nearly lost our chimney!

Had a lovely couple of days off school, went and watched Tom hanks in Big instead!! Great days

I know the woman who rang the BBC

@jamesmay7953

8 жыл бұрын

So does Brian Williams sorry I had to make that joke

@cdtj1985

8 жыл бұрын

Was she talking about the UK or Florida?

@Shadowmoon358

8 жыл бұрын

The UK

@Larwood.

7 жыл бұрын

She was lying to you, nobody ever rang the BBC he made it up to start his segment.

@IThinkYouLookLarvely

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I read it was made up for "theatrical reasons" - The Met Office had an inkling about a storm, but their weather modelling failed badly, they dismissed it and got poor old Fishy to say it in front of millions.

I decided to go for a game of golf as it was starting to hit Ireland. I remember the sand blowing off the adjoining beach were like needles hitting me in the face. The wind was so strong I drove a par 4!

I didnt see that forecast..I lived in Torquay at the time, I was 24. first thing I knew about it was seeing the landlord out looking at the roof in the morning..I slept rite through it lol

BBC Michael Fish 15th October 1987 hurricane forecast full version!

@Larwood.

7 жыл бұрын

Well spotted!

Slept right through it only to wake up next day and walk down the road to see entire roofs had been blown off houses

The house next door to my sister's in Maidstone was demolished!!

@David.L291

4 жыл бұрын

you gave her a good banging no doubt lol

This will go down in history..poor man

If only that lady could have been more precise when she phoned the BBC.

"Well the weather will become rather windy."

Yay! Storm Ophelia is coming on the same dayy!

I remember going down to Kent on the train from London Victoria a few days later, and seeing vast swathes of woodland swept aside like a giant had just kicked a pile of matchsticks across the countryside.

@paulcaswell2813

2 жыл бұрын

Sevenoaks was reduced to a single oak...

@typicalpiscean9111

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcaswell2813 I came to say the same thing!

I am from Glasgow and back then I was 12 years old. Just my luck that the family had chosen that weekend to go on holiday to Margate. How we got home we shall never know.

@itsmedia493

6 жыл бұрын

hoggy2much999 I live in Margate

@zoehazel2854

6 жыл бұрын

hoggy2much999 poor you. Bet you never wanted to go back (I'm not even talking about the weather)

One of the first ever songs I wrote was a nod to this event. It was called "The Weatherman".

Nothing to see here folks move along, October 1987, 30 years ago today in the UK. nice upload. Thumbs Up...on 333.