I prefer this presentation, fridge magnets and all, compared to the techno crap of today. The measured pace, clear charts, informed (informing) talk from Michael Fish. Does anyone else agree with me?

@petergiles5224

4 жыл бұрын

ds1868 yes I do agree with you. The problem today is technology. Today I feel so detached from the Plastic world which it now has become.

@JohnSmith-uk3oh

3 жыл бұрын

These were better days, before i was born infact, but most things were better in the old days.

@stephensnell1379

3 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-uk3oh actually today's forecasts are much more clear and reliable

@MAAZAD

2 жыл бұрын

Hear hear

@MAAZAD

2 жыл бұрын

Who remembers the magnets falling off and just not staying out lol. Those were the days! Lol

I remember January 1979 very, very well. I was living in the remote countryside then and we got snowed in. There were snowdrifts about five feet high between the hedges. It was AMAZING!!

Y'know, I was just wondering what the weather was going to be on 31st Jan' 1979.

@0rbit80y

6 жыл бұрын

OMG You really hit the jackpot then!!! I'll bet you couldn't beieve your luck!! That truely is astonishing!!

This is so old school its brilliant

@dvidclapperton

3 жыл бұрын

Time for there to be a big outage to force the BBC to wheel out the old style magnetic maps.

In the south that winter it snowed heavily on New Year's Eve and stayed for the rest of the school holidays so we got some tobogganing,snowball fights,etc. in (I was 14) - there was a night on which it reached minus 22 in Scotland and there were people up there stranded on at least one train that ground to a halt in it and farmers having to dig their sheep out! The snow returned on 23rd January,falling heavily and settling deeply for most of the time until the middle of February. I lost my shoe in a snowdrift and had to wait days until it melted to find it. There was a big bank of cleared snow at one end of the playing fields that didn't melt away entirely until the break-up for the Easter holidays were nearly upon us.

@joannegray5138

7 жыл бұрын

I remember that. The North East got it pretty bad too. My mother bought me a pair of bright yellow chunky "moon boots" that I absolutely hated and got teased at school for. And because of the bad weather, I was forced to wear the effing things rather a lot!

The winter of 1978/79 was one of the harshest of the last 50 years with blizzards and long periods of snowfall. It was made worse by a local government strike, where many roads were not gritted, and disputes involving tanker and freight drivers. My school had to close for 2 weeks because there was no heating oil, not bad after having 2 weeks off for Christmas.

Bless Richard Baker who recently passed away. I remember this forecast as though it was yesterday. I was stunned by Michael Fish's sleight of card weather symbol trick when he swapped rain for sleet at 1:34

theres no fancy graphics to distract us fromm the actual forecast, and I love the detail he puts in.

@stephensnell1379

3 жыл бұрын

Well the modern day 3D graphics are much better As you may remember the old day BBC symbols were known for falling on the floor So in truth the modern day forecasts have much more detail in them

I keep waiting for the synth to chime in and for the beats to drop. Thank you, Liam Howlett, for planting 'Weather Experience' in my head.

I'm pretty certain that first map was designed purely to highlight and compliment that jacket. A pencil as a pointer!! Man, that's some crazy old skool tech. I don't think I've seen a pencil on telly since Words And Pictures ended.

I want TV weather forecasts like that now! Without all these digital technologies, you know... Just a funny dude moving little things around the map.

@stephensnell5707

18 күн бұрын

You dickhead,digital tech is FAR BETTER AND MORE ADVANCED MODERN FORECASTS CAN GO MANY DAYS AHEAD

That's a hell of a comb-over from Michael Fish

Blimey, you wouldn't hear a word like 'occlusion' in the the BBC forecast these days!

The days when the people who bring us our weather forecasts did not think they were talking to a nation of Dummies... This reminds you how "dumbed bown" our TV can be in so many areas...

Brilliant! From the days when weathermen knew what they were talking about!

@stephensnell5707

18 күн бұрын

You dickhead,modern forecasters also know what they are on about

It's INCREDIBLE how far computers have changed everything in 40 years including the weather forecast

That satellite pic 🤣 I recall the magnetic cut out weather symbols but never remembered the walk through he did or the sat pic, I was born in spring 75 so may be why! Was so gutted when they changed it all, loved watching the cut outs get thrown up on the map and slide down to be raining in an entirely different region 😂 Definitely nice to see the respect given, weather presenters seem OK still, I do find the news sometimes a bit one sided which isn't quite so respectful, don't know if it's always been so, I don't think it has, however I was always too mesmerised by the little cut outs 😁 and always had a burning question to try and resolve, why did he always have unused cut outs left over?! Yep I was only 3 so I ll allow myself that one 😂

JANUARY 1979, the coldest winter I can ever remember as a kid (apart perhaps from this winter - 2011-12)

Damn I was literally 8 days old when this forecast was made

Fish is a legend. He went on reporting for years and years!

I like the old-style way of weather presenting, with the maps that had stick-on symbols. I can remember satellite pictures from the early 80s.

Michael Fish is probably the most memorable BBC meteorologist, and Richard Baker as the most memorable newsreader.

this is the greatest youtube epic I have ever seen. Two Baftas and an Oscar...

Like the way he uses a pencil on the satellite picture for 0:55-1:06!!!

Just watching big march revisited on itv4 which at the moment is Jan and Feb 79. It was Bloody Freezing!

Wow. Didn't realise sat pictures went back then for BBC.

Damn…look how dapper he was!!

Are yo absolutely sure this is dated 31st January 1979. I remember that day very well - it snowed and snowed and it was the day after we had moved to a new house. We were just outside Sheffield. This forecast doesn't actually depict what occurred snowise that day - it was much colder than 4 or 5 degrees.

Wow. My 17th birthday and it wasn't pissing down for a change lol

Great,its nice to know what its going to be like 31 years ago!

The weather of the Winter of Discontent.

Wow. I thought Michael Fish said that it was much warmer than usual.

Eighty-four and a half thousands hits?!? Why? Is it about the jacket?

@WillScarlet1991

9 жыл бұрын

Nounismisation I think it's more to do with him looking like a flasher.

@rearspeaker6364

7 жыл бұрын

ITS THE HAIR!!(or the lack of)!

@ab8588

5 жыл бұрын

Try 120 k

Hi Michael. It was actually worse than 2011-2012, indeed the joint fourth coldest of the twentieth century. There were only seventeen westerly days for the duration of the winter. Still some way behind 1962-63 and 1947-48 though but similar to 1916 and 1940. We have had nothing to approach it since

That deserves a thumbs-up! "And now the weather, "sponsored" by the Open University..."

Wow, back in the day when they truly had an interactive weather board. Is Michael Fish the guy who reassured everyone that the late 80's UK Hurricane wouldn't be too much of thing to worry about?

@ds1868

4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@stephensnell1379

2 жыл бұрын

Those aren't interactive at all you idiot they are static Modern weather maps are better,clearer and more accurate

Freezing pishing wet. Thanks, Fish.

Back then raindrops were massive!

this is the proper way to do the weather.. with a real actualised map. !!

i remember the stick on clouds!

i did not know that he used stickers for the maps! pretty cool compared to today's weather system for the BBC.

Haha, I'm loving the jacket xD

So.... This was the weather when I was 2 months old.

Was that Pebble Mill At One starting at the end of this clip?

It isn't the weathermen that don't know what they're on about, all BBC weather presenters have a degree in meteorology or physics. It's the BBC simplifying the maps and vocabulary to suit a wider audience, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The best weather brought caster bring this back with the stickers on the charts so exciting, what are they going to get what are we going to get 😀😂😀

i was born 4 days before this

Used to love those wavy lines as a kid,makes me sad to see them again!!!!!

Excellent weather back in those days, not like the weather nowadays

Anyone here in 2020?

They're the temperature, in celsius.

7pm the lights went out.

We've come a loooooooooong way folks 😁👍

This is BBC 1

John Kettley is a weatherman and so is Michael Fish

ah, thanks; makes much more sense now

The gold old days.

what do the numbers in the yellow circles stand for?

@jupiteravatar

4 жыл бұрын

@GeneralWorld wow, 11 years later, get a reply, thanks!

david allan is the announcer here

Published on Mar 4, 2016

Love that pencil 😂

I always wanted one of those stick-on clouds

@dvidclapperton

3 жыл бұрын

The symbols slid down the map when Michael Fish tried to stick them to the map once, and there was also a weather type once called G O F.

All that cold and snowy weather coupled with all those strikes of the Winter Discontent that fooled in February 1979 or could be next winter I mean strikes that is?

great, just like I remember it

wonder if Michael ever had a lot of fridge magnets

What the weather is like when we go to the plymouth christmas Market treeby court

It *was* quite warm, compared to the rest of January 1979.

this is gr8

Great snow n ice that year! At school we made a 50meter white ice sliding skid plane, the number of kids that went flying smashing their heads!! It would have been a elf n safety nightmare! I was 9 then those were the days!

@Curi0u50ne

8 жыл бұрын

Rycroft Middle school in Leeds! LUFC 4 Ever!

@EditorDudesPlayList

7 жыл бұрын

I was nine too!

Could you imagine the likes of Tomasz Schafernaker and Laura Tobin using a pencil on a satellite picture?

Life is all memory

Hello

@hollycom Did you run out of things to say after typing his name?

Don't you mean Callaghan? lol Thatcher wasn't PM till May of '79

Yes it was!

Lemon Curry!?

@Professor6871 pretty much, yes ;)

Peter sellers?

why is europe so vertical lol??

There's one where the symbols fall down after his put them there.

rofl! he actually had some hair back then.

He says the temperature in Fahrenheit but uses stickers in centigrade

@stephensnell5707

18 күн бұрын

You mean Celsius

michael fish is the weather jesus..buddy holly spectacles a bit iffy though.

Note: No chemtrails on the sat picture.

Think about the sucker that had to stick on the isobars each day :P

I agree lol! must have been the thatch!

BBC Weather 31 January 1979

why didn't it stay this way

@stephensnell1379

5 жыл бұрын

Symbols don't give a clear enough weather prospect today's modern charts give a much clearer weather prospect

11So much better than the gabble `we get nowa days.

Very plain font used for BBC1

Doug Stanhope still has a jacket like that.

@hollycom Understandable what can you say about a wet fish like Michael Fish nothing?

Ah Pebble Mill. I remember it well. well sort of! Hee Hee!

michael fish!

Publicat pe 25 apr 2025

Did he fuck the weather report up that day 😂

Nice outfit.

Michael Fish looks funny.

Omg I'm in 203wow loool

@themanfromhell24 it's to prove that weather was bad even in 1979. :-)