JeremyP's Blog

Well, it seems that Michael Fish is retiring from being a weather man. Michael Fish is the weather man who famously told us there wouldn't be a hurricane in 1987 just before the Great Storm. Ha, ha what a loser!

But no! Wait! I've always been a defender of Mr Fish in this respect. I mean, technically what hit us was not a hurricane in two respects. Firstly, only storms in and around the Carribean are known as hurricanes. Secondly, the storm we had wasn't powerful enough to be a hurricane. The wind only gusted up to hurricane force occasionally. In a hurricane it's hurricane force on average.

Apart from that, it turns out that Mr Fish is the victim of selective reporting. He made the famous quote:

Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't.

Pretty damning, huh? Well, no. He was actually talking about a news story about a real hurricane in the Carribean. The mother of one of his coworkers was going out to Florida on holiday and he was reassuring her on air, so to speak.

The same broadcast also included

Batten down the hatches there's some really stormy weather on the way.

This bit never gets broadcast for some reason.

So I say "no more victimisation of Michael Fish. He has suffered long enough.