BBC Weather 31 January 1979

[nimbuscube]

Comb-overs pushing southeastwards and making themselves felt into tomorrow morning.

[Professor6871]

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

[97channel]

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.

[Musicmania1968]

yeah, they used to stick them on the board. Now its high tech stuff.

[Musicmania1968]

I was 11 when this was done, probably even watched it at the time, I really wish I was young again.

[Quex01]

That reminds me again tha I should never follow the current fashion trends, if I don't want to look ridiculous 30 years later.

[tvc18]

Notice how he sounds as if he's talking to adults, not people with the attention spans of hyperactive 6-year-old kids.

[paulkingtiger]

Fantastic!  Classic Michael Fish :)

[TheGodParticle]

Wow! hes a fashion victim.

[HeathenMaiden]

Simple, effective, easy to read and entertaining as well. Why can't the weather report be like this again?

[03mph]

@HeathenMaiden cause things have changed alot in the last 35 years

[HeathenMaiden]

@03mph It's a shame though that things always seem to change for the worse.

[peterpeterxxo]

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

[burpmamv2]

who posts news

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

He's like John Peel's scientist brother in this clip.

[Taff1967SC]

great, just like I remember it

[FlyingPig1902]

AAAAAAH, 1979...the year when weathermen used to look like pedophiles.

[Jarren202]

Crazy to think, but I know EXACTLY where i was when this was first broadcast!

I was in my mum's belly.

[themachman19691]

yep,still the same bloody weather 32 years later,cold and snow.global warming?my arse

[Springamatul]

Michael Fish looks funny.

[GreenBaldrick]

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.

[cthulhu11111111]

GIANT PENCIL

[Jarren202]

@cthulhu11111111 GIANT PENCIL WREAKS HAVOC ACROSS UK

[itkapatanka]

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

[zcheeseolly]

Haha, I'm loving the jacket xD

[ivorlottandtonybroke]

Interesting! My old records show that 1 Feb 1979 was very wet indeed (in Essex anyway). Most of the rest of Feb 1979 was very cold with severe blizzards, so that long-range weather forecast was pretty well right. I now have a retro-weather mug with an image of Michael Fish looking like that! Every time you pour tea in, the temperature rises.

[cthulhu11111111]

thumb up if you were surprised by the sudden pencil appearing

[Glenn1967ful]

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.

[Paradyski]

@Glenn1967ful i was something like 2 y old :)

Anyway, im Polish and in '78 was so bad that u could walk from Poland to Sweden, Baltic sea was frozen

[Lookup2Wakeup]

Note:

No chemtrails on the sat picture.

[rabioza]

has scotland shrunk on this map?

[Lookup2Wakeup]

@rabioza

Yes, politically correct for the day, before devolution!

[helltopay1]

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

[moshabee]

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

[themanfromhell24]

why on earth was this put on youtube? this is possibly the most pointless video ever. maybe even more than that chinese girl who films herself smiling and making peace signs. just terrible.

[vntr2006]

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

[TheOptimod]

@themanfromhell24 And the most pointless comment to go with it - well done.

[themanfromhell24]

@TheOptimod well done to you for making the most unnecessary reply

[AlgerianBanjo]

@themanfromhell24

This is possibly most pointless comment ever. There are millions of more pointless videos on youtube than this. Look at all the LIKES this has received. It's extremely interesting from a historical standpoint. The magnets and Michael Fish's (lack of) style are also FUNNY.

I can't believe you made that comment on an interesting and unintentionally FUNNY clip like that, given the amount of truly pointless crap on Youtube.

[Feisty1967]

Pebble Mill at One yay!

[ccccrsraasfsdf]

that hair/glasses/jacket/pencil/det­achable symbols - LMAO! This seems more like a geography lesson than a weather forecast these days - far longer and more explanatory. In other words, better.

[Letspreach]

The moment I saw Michael Fish, I thought it was a spoof sketch.

[DiamondEyeProduction]

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

[mepjohnson]

Don't take no notice of 'Fish' he's a well known racist.

[twoslices]

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

[neverangry18]

You'd be beheaded if you did the weather with that moustache today!

[quirpco]

Brilliant comb-over!

[TheSandsie13]

which was worse the jacket the weatherman has on or all the cicles and swirls?

[Cool2BCeltic]

The weather of the Winter of Discontent.

[nevabcki3]

I must admit that the Atlantic chart is a work of art...whatever happened to isobars?

[Professor6871]

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?

[hollycom]

michael fish!

[Professor6871]

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

[hollycom]

@Professor6871

pretty much, yes ;)

[Professor6871]

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

[blackbarbieprincess]

wow!! this is awesome they should do the weather report like this every once in a while it would be hilarious=]

[hanza93]

lmfao clowns!!!! omg London was so misreble...

[Nerrt45]

Lemon Curry!?

[Feisty1967]

Pebble Mill at One, i used to watch that when I came home from School at lunchtime. Ahhh...memories

[Stereolabdream]

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...

[nevabcki3]

Is this a sketch from Monty Python?

[Professor6871]

@nevabcki3 Could well be that given that Michael Fish is always and still is the best clown with got on the weather with twat he is.

[russ7510]

This is so old school its brilliant

[TheDunloybhoy]

so this was the weather on the day i was born.... wow i must be old if i was born into these wacky looking times

[TheDustpile]

Shit weather under Labour then and you get shit weather under Labour now!

[JAYROX1969]

@TheDustpile Nothing changes does it?

[tireoghainian]

You can get these weather symbols as fridge magnets now!

[nickpackham]

@tireoghainian I have them now and am having hours of fun with them!

[JFredUK]

Notice the lack of annoyingly loud and crass trailers between the weather forecast and the continuity announcement at the end. A far cry from how things are today. The Beeb may not have broadcast as many hours, back then, but at least what they showed was worth watching for the most part.

[bellybasher]

they should do one of these type forecasts now, just tmagine people's reactions when he points to clouds with a pencil

[TheMessiah79]

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

[bellybasher]

would be funny seeing Thomas especially, getting really over enthusiastic with it

[everymatt]

I always wanted one of those stick-on clouds

[Durbs75]

So, really, not much happening on the weather front in this day in 1979... I blame Thacther..

[aarontic]

I agree lol! must have been the thatch!

[SenhorBundy]

Don't you mean Callaghan? lol

Thatcher wasn't PM till May of '79

[porbello9]

@Durbs75 the mad old biddy hadnt been in elected, this was during the winter of discontent under jovial Jim

[JAYROX1969]

@Durbs75 Labour was actually in power at the time of this forecast.

[UKSazzy67]

I remember the days when we got excited over a black and white satellite picture. It seemed like the height of technology in those days.

[freakyjasonpowerslam]

Wow. What a combover.

[sweetypie000]

the BBC call it a weather forecast

i call it a wild stab in the dark -

they seldom get it right. Just look at their weather forecast page on the BBC !

It changes as soon as someone their end opens the window and goes "oh, it's raining" or 'oh, it's colder than we expected just look at this wilkos temperature guage'

Reall, their skill at determining what the weather will be like in an hours time is appauling let alone what occurring tomorrow or next week

[deee1979]

i was born 4 days before this

[MarkNobes]

This was when we had real winters!

[maxiboy666]

Indeed. And they will return and then all the rubbish about global warming will be shown for what it is!

[Megavids3]

gosh using a pencil to mark the satellite photos, my it's changed over the years

[Scruttock5]

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

[jeremyj887]

Do you have any BBC News bulletins from the 1970s you could post?

[chookter1]

this is more like open university

[UKSazzy67]

That suit is a crime against fashion! Check jacket with patterned shirt and dark coloured tie, somebody should have advised him better!

[053bss]

That satellite picture is fantastic!

[DPQuiz]

Freezing pishing wet. Thanks, Fish.

[xoffender74]

i remember the stick on clouds!

[vancitycanary]

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

[GlynnyrdSkynyrd]

Its no wonder people used to think the earth was flat back in them days...Just look at that weather map!

[TheMessiah79]

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

[heyitsme277]

wow i love this:)

:P:P

[boochy115]

Nice outfit.

[senornipolian]

This is funny!

[dimples282]

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

[Flickyhecky]

Looks like a hurricane has blown half of his hair off his head!

[Martin9476]

rofl! he actually had some hair back then.

[kingofthecastle1]

Reminds me of an OU broadcast ;)

[jupiteravatar]

what do the numbers in the yellow circles stand for?

[davidmcn]

They're the temperature, in celsius.

[jupiteravatar]

ah, thanks; makes much more sense now

[mubd1234]

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

[RobinCarmody]

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

[mcguiganx1]

@jupiteravatar temputure :)

[PONTY30]

How high has he got his trousers??

[billyb4223]

lol, ye

[XxDariax]

wow forget the pencil, compare the time length of this forecast to the ones now... I would say the same for the news back then in general. We practically race through the whole info now..

[bellybasher]

ha a weather forecast using a pencil and sticking clouds on, Still prefer this version to todays crappy 3D moving map

[soboneidol]

i can't believe that there is another 4404 other nutters like myself who have watched this! i remember that winter though, i had a brand new raleigh grifter!!!! oh de 70's :)

[eclectica1]

Hello, I'm Michael Fish, and in a little under nine years time I will be informing the nation that there will NOT be a major storm coming despite a warning from a member of the general public.

Shame I don't know it yet...

[knicksfan89]

david allan is the announcer here

[billybop65]

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

[davidmcn]

Yes it was!

[billybop65]

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

[BiffChunksteak]

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.

[AdzeeT]

haha! Me too!

[Paul02here]

As others have stated- much better, more focused presentation than now.

[leon44isdabest]

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

[reelsonwheels]

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

[leon44isdabest]

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.

[RobinCarmody]

Until you reach the point - which we arguably have - where if you're outside that mythical "wider audience" you are left with nothing amid all the pseudo-choice ...

[kempstonjoystick]

Molto Bene!