its not his fault the centre of the low deviated as it came across, you cant always predict where its going if it changed course..its bloody weather it suits itself.
The forecast wasn't too bad. In this situation, an error tracking the center by a few miles can mean the difference between "breezy" weather and hurricane force winds. The center came a little north of expected bringing violent winds to the South of England. Had the storm center tracked another 30 miles further north, the very strongest winds, sustained at 90mph and gusting over 140mph (confined to the English Channel) would have spread inland, causing untold destruction. A bullet was dodged!
@kebabtank mate only 14-19 people died during the storm in the UK. This is a very small number considering 1763 people die per day in the United Kingdom so shut the FUCK UP U LITTLE BITCH
Certainly not possible for a real hurricane to hit the UK as the waters are far to cold here. Hurricanes nourish themselves on very warm water. Soon as a hurricane’s eye hit land, or moves in to cooler waters, they weaken because their energy source is taken away from them. Wind shear and dry air has this effect on them to.
Lol Michael Fish getting the weather wrong that day.
Yeah I remember this very much i was 12 years old and lived in Kent, like I still do.
And it’s this storm that got me interested and very fascinated in the weather and hurricanes, even though this storm was not technically a hurricane but a very powerful Atlantic depression.
If this were a hurricane it would have been classified as a category 3 storm.
@JoseTwitterFan But felt it was a bit unfair as Bill Giles’ forecast after this was actually worse then even Michael’s one i.e. “very breezy up through the channel” said Bill lol
@DaveBond21....I watched the weather forecast that night and he did say that, and he has even admitted that he got it slightly wrong ! So sort it out !! lol
What he should have said was there will be hurricane force winds. However, indeed there was no hurricane as there was no hurricane setup (eg eye of the storm etc)...
@EnglishNationalist13 It wasn't that there was no hurricane setup, it's more that there cannot physically be a hurricane in the UK, waters are far to cold. Only one hurricane has ever hit the British Isles; Hurricane Debbie, 1961.
@alfiesgirluk Ok, it was badly worded. What I meant was that it is not possible for a hurricane to form near the UK. Usually, as just happened with Katia, by the time an Atlantic hurricane gets to the UK, it has become 'extra-tropical', so it isn't as powerful as a hurricane, but on a rare occasion, as with Debbie, the hurricane will move fast enough that it is still a hurricane when it reaches the UK. The above storm didn't even originate as a hurricane.
BBC weather in general is a fuck up, certainly on the website. They say it is very difficult to predict the weather any further than a week ahead. The website can't get it right one day ahead. Pathetic.
This man provided sterling service for years and years and never got a thank you, but he makes the one mistake and everyone is ready to call him horrible names. But remember, you saw shit you harvest shit.
@aaaarrrgggghh, I built all these house. Do they call me Bob the Builder? No, they don't. All those roads, I laid myself. Do the call me Bob the Road-maker? No, they do not. All those fields you see ploughed? I ploughed them. Do they call me Bob the farmer? No, they don't. I and I fuck one little sheep...
technically, he was right. The storm that hit that night wasn't actually a hurricane. Hurricanes are tropical winds, and this wasn't tropical. It was just a very strong storm
Your excuse is you have been found out by someone who was there like me. My history is out there with evidence - Just look at the Tubeway Army archive gigs that I recorded at REAL 1977 punk venues. Anyone who kn nows anything about the Punk scene back then knows it wasn't about the post punk acts of 1979 that you refer to, christ even in 1978 it was New Wave not punk. I bet you even believe in Anarcheee ;-P
I did - You just arent that up on your punk - 1979 was post punk where I was knocking around with Ian Curtis - you'll know him from JD. 1979 was a good year that I'll give you. Incidentally Savage is a prick I much preferred the honesty of In the City and Pete Gilbert.
@Elektrapunk1 Sorry dude Smash it Up Damned,Gotta Gettaway SLF,Babylons Burning Ruts 1979....Listen mate i know my Transmitters from my Fall to my Punilux from my Gang of 4 from my Metal Box so spare me the life lesson. Anyway why didn't you save Curtis?
@kingofpunk1977 - Oh no when Punk started to become Novelty. It lasted a year at best if your a purist punk if however you liked Okapi's and manufactured bondage trousers from the likes of Alien then who am I to argue ;-)
@Elektrapunk1 I suppose round this time June 1979 you started to have a wedge & wrapped a tea towel round your neck, then when you saw Spandau Ballet do the same thing on TOTP Nov 1980 , you bought your zoot suit blah blah blah. It seems you stopped listening to punk is when the press told you to. Listen mate you weren't there, & if you were you were a wannabe & wasted time cos anyone who was did something . My excuse was in 1976 I was nine years old without pocket money & flared trousers
@Elektrapunk1I guess in June 1979 you had a wedge & a tea towel round your neck , then when Spandau did it a year later on TOTP you started to cry. As I said before if you were the right age (18-22 plus) in 1974-1978 you would have done something like John Cooper Clarke, Adam Ant , Julian Cope etc...my excuse was I was 9 years old in 1976 on no pocket money with flared trousers. don't rewrite history...YOU DID NOTHING WHEN EVERYONE AROUND DID!!!!!!
HAHA!! Remember this funny blooper from 24 years ago? No? Me neither. I do, however remember those HILARIOUS predictions of the great 1902 storm. Can you post some videos of that?
God has said in the Quran: Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it.... (Quran, 24:43)
BBC weather is a joke. It says its 4 degrees atm and it totally is not, more like -1 at least.
ASSOLES, I dont know where they get theirt wanky data from but its so inaccurate is a joke.Their website changes the outlook on the whole day almost every hour.
Actually, by definition a hurricane is a tropical weather system, therefore Michael Fish was indeed correct when he said that there was not a hurricane coming. The wind speed may have fallen into the category of a hurricane, but by definition it could not have been one.
@chris99140 "you should of been working nights,bloody rough it was."
I drove to work for a 5.15 start...It was erm...Interesting. At least I was in a car. Some poor bloke was battling the winds on a push bike, and dodging bushes which were bouncing across the road, not to mention falling branches. I remember trees blocking the road everywhere. I made many a detour that morning, and people standing outside looking a bit shell shocked at what remained of their cars after trees had crushed them.
guys, come on, give the guy a break, ok, he made a big error, but back then, the weather technology wasnt as advanced as it is today, plus the phone call was like at the last minute, so how was he suppose to really know what the weather was going to be like.
@DaveBond21 because i watched the documentery about the storm and some of the tv presenters and weather people explained what really happened. Apperiently, one of the weather researchers tried to call the BBC at the last minute as a warning, but then Micheal fish got the wrong idea and ignored it.
@DaveBond21 You're wrong I'm afraid. This clip IS from the night of the storm. I'm old enough to remember it well. It's a very famous clip, and Michael Fish has talked about it many times in documentaries since.
Back then a 24 hr forecast was pretty much a crap shoot. The computer models did not come into their own until 1993 when they started screaming at the weather forcasters for a week that a large storm was going to form in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast....the forecasters ignored it until the 3 day models still had it.....
It became known as the Super-storm of '93 and then people started listening to the computer models.
What bugs me about this is that it is often reported that the broadcast was made a few hours before the storm hit, the broadcast came infact from the mid morning news 11AM a good 20 hours before the storm hit. The press have interviewed a few people over the years claiming they were the woman who called the BBC, when asked what time they called they allways give a time several hours after the broadcast was made.
@kingofpunk1977 I tied my fence into place because the weather forecast on the Sunday DID predict a storm...Except they said it would hit on Thursday morning...Then along came Michael :-))
@Elektrapunk1 Sorry mate I dont live in Spain & unlike you at least I have had some pussy. Go back to creaming over Lydons book. I bet you were one of those stupid guys who bought the scrapbook
@kingofpunk1977 - Not quite Im one of the original's that came out of Devoto territory when Punk didn't need confirmation by adding 77 to your alias ;-) Watch those furballs and make sure she's had her worming tablets.
@Elektrapunk1 If you were that original you would have formed a band , got a cine camera or become an artist or poet. Accept this Punk may have it's origins in 1975/76 but it was until the tail end of 1977 when the records started to come out & much of it's exposure was in fact 1978/79 but of course trendies like you subscribe to the Jon Savage/Mark Perry/Tony Parsons way of things. 1979 was in fact the best period for music
@spikepedestal I cant believe that some flippant off the cuff comment I made a few months ago has enraged so many people..........IT WAS A JOKE EVERYONE
I can clear up the mystery phone caller who phoned up the Beeb asking them if there was going to be a hurricane. It was Michael Fish's mum telling his son that his dinner's getting cold and he should be back home before 11pm no later. Also not bring home any girls from the Met Office.
Hurricane's are the most powerful storm's ever! This michael guy fish should have been looking out of my window when i was six! The telephone pole was touching the concrete backwards then fowards! With trees too! Channel islands! Big mistake to forget!
@976doddy Hurricane or not, I was living a few miles from where the Sealink ferry Hengist blew onshore at the Warren. I was 16 at the time. Yes, you're right, it was an unforgettable mistake on the part of the weather forecasters, for sure! 850,000 trees in Kent alone were up-rooted or blown over that night. Unforgettable.
My Mum and Dad have a farm next to a woodland, with a stream running through. The day of the storm (I was 7), I remember going into the wood with my Mum, looking down to the stream which was a gushing orange river. I tree gave way from it's earth and came crashing towards us. My Mum and I ran, luckily we were unhurt by the tree. It's something I will never forget!
@MumblingMickey Epic fail > Are you American? If so then apologies for what I'm abouts to say, cause if your English then stop using annoying American phrases you fucking idiot, speak English!
By definition, it was not a hurricane, you thick non-meteorologically educated idiots! Hurricanes do not occur at British latitudes - it was an intense depression, but the positioning of the centre of the low, not the severity of the storm was the fault. It was less intense than the braer storm of '93, but since that didn't affect anywhere down south nothing much was made of it.
Yes porbello9- That was when Seven Oaks in Kent became Three Oaks in Kent. They showed them blown down, incredible. Felt sorry for Fishy still what do you expect from an expert- they tend to be over-confident...
@johnnywindows1 I seem to remember the following monday being black monday and a huge stockmarket crash, i thought god ive only been in the south east a week and its all fuked up lol
"A woman rang up today saying there was a hurricane on the way, don't worry, there isn't."
That night a huge hurricane hit the south east of England causing immense damage, entire woodlands flattened, roofs ripped off hundreds of homes and damage in the millions upon millions of pounds.
It was the biggest 'blooper' of his career, one of the most respected weather forecasters in the country.
i wouldnt say it was a blooper, as there wasnt a hurricane. The UK cannot get hurricanes, but I believe that many viewers just assume hurricanes are really strong winds... so when he said there wasnt a hurricane, many may have felt there wasnt going to be strong winds.
There were very strong winds, but there was no hurricane, so that is where people feel he made the mistake.
You're right- the lines in the sky aren't from planes at all, its all some kind of conspiracy to create dull days! Dull overcast days are ideal for alien landings and giant world-dominating lizards and blah blah BLEURGH
they seldom get it right. Just look at their weather forecast page on the BBC webpage!
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'
Really, their skill at determining what the weather will be like in an hours time is appauling let alone what occurring tomorrow or next week
ACTUALLY kids michael fish at the beginning of this clip was responding to a call from a woman who had heard about hurricane potential in the US (i think east coast) where she was about to go on holiday - he wasn't talking about the UK there (though he still kinda messed up)
I remember wakin gup at 6 in the morn thinking WTF! it was scary whole house was shaking we lived next to a field on the end of a cul de sac in the end all we lost was a roof tile! but it was bloody scary!
You're right. It wasn't a hurricane. The sea tempretures around the UK are way to low to support tropical air systems. In that sense, Fish was right.
Certain storms here can produce hurricane force winds (briefly) but they are all extra-tropical and come off the North Atlantic Storm Track hitching a ride on the jet stream.
@MarkNobes It was a hurricane it was born in the Atlantic in the tropics, a hurricane is a tropical storm that has to be born in the tropics & has to hit 74mph before it is classed as a hurricane, it was from the tropics & brushed against the USA & came over the Atlantic & then hit the UK, so yes it was a hurricane & hit over 74mph & was from the tropics of the Atlantic ocean.
@MarkNobes The winds on the south coast had mean-speeds of hurricane force, in some exposed channel areas mean speeds of 85mph where reported with gusts over 120mph, but inland and in particular London your right mean-speeds where lower but still around 60mph so a strong gale with hurricane force gusts of 90mph plus, parts of Essex and Kent had gusts upto 110mph.
@Knightoftheorient no sorry . although this storm produced strong gusts of wind (up to 120mph) the maximum sustained wind speed was 46MPH , making it nothing more than a tropical storm. a weak one at that . a tropical storm is when winds are sustained between 39 mph and 74mph. (so at 46mph it was only a weak tropical storm) a hurricane is when sustained winds are AT LEAST 75MPH. Our storm was nowhere NEAr that. Hurricanes are impossible in england. seas to cold
@ilovemoviesuk That isn't true, it was winds of hurricane force. It's just Hurricanes have different wind profile and distribution to storms, and significantly higher precipitation levels. Nevertheless it still had Hurricane force winds.
(Quote) if a HURRICANE had hit us, it would have been much worse.
Urm no it wouldnt have been, the highest recorded windspeeds in this storm where around 120mph equivelant to a category 3 hurricane, the insurance claims topped £1.4 billion almost as much as the insurance claims from Hurricane Andrew
@Knightoftheorient noo!!!!!!!!! omg you thick moron lol You failed on your own comment. Highest recorded windspeed as in GUST. a catagory 3 hurricane has SUSTAINED winds at 120MPH omg dont comment on youtube ever again
These are all predictions, Only God knows the weather
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TOTTBOY 3 weeks ago
@TOTTBOY God doesn't control the weather. Natrual causes do. God is just a "Spirit" he has no power to control weather, nothing does.
TheGamingLulz 1 week ago
And again after 3/1/12 hurricane they released a Red Alert an hour before the storm hit some warning eh:-(Met Office big fail again LMFAO!!!
Stevenizer99 4 weeks ago
Apparently UK is gonna get hit by a hurricane on friday the 16th of december 2011 so lets see if BBC met office can fuck it up twice lol
Stevenizer99 1 month ago
@Stevenizer99 And they got it wrong again.
roycampsall1959 1 month ago
On his wiki page entry it says Fish now denies he said this. Wow, what a bullshitter.
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TheSouthPool 2 months ago
I always throught the years maintain my view of Michael Fish, he seems a very miserable, mean and obnoxious old man!!
tonyregan021177 2 months ago
DON'T WORRY MY ASS
bakergim 3 months ago
D'OH
tiasarahellielorna 3 months ago
its not his fault the centre of the low deviated as it came across, you cant always predict where its going if it changed course..its bloody weather it suits itself.
peterpeterxxo 3 months ago
Did anyone on the media actually predict that there would indeed be a hurricane?
harryandsimba 4 months ago
The forecast wasn't too bad. In this situation, an error tracking the center by a few miles can mean the difference between "breezy" weather and hurricane force winds. The center came a little north of expected bringing violent winds to the South of England. Had the storm center tracked another 30 miles further north, the very strongest winds, sustained at 90mph and gusting over 140mph (confined to the English Channel) would have spread inland, causing untold destruction. A bullet was dodged!
bloggulator 4 months ago
@bloggulator Try explaining that to the families of the people who died then.
kebabtank 4 months ago
@kebabtank mate only 14-19 people died during the storm in the UK. This is a very small number considering 1763 people die per day in the United Kingdom so shut the FUCK UP U LITTLE BITCH
Tom63175 4 months ago
@Tom63175 There's no need for that.
kebabtank 4 months ago
Certainly not possible for a real hurricane to hit the UK as the waters are far to cold here. Hurricanes nourish themselves on very warm water. Soon as a hurricane’s eye hit land, or moves in to cooler waters, they weaken because their energy source is taken away from them. Wind shear and dry air has this effect on them to.
Nightimeguy 4 months ago
Lol Michael Fish getting the weather wrong that day.
Yeah I remember this very much i was 12 years old and lived in Kent, like I still do.
And it’s this storm that got me interested and very fascinated in the weather and hurricanes, even though this storm was not technically a hurricane but a very powerful Atlantic depression.
If this were a hurricane it would have been classified as a category 3 storm.
Got to like Michael Fish as he is classic.
Nightimeguy 4 months ago
The time when Michael fish became the most hated man in Britain. (palm to forehead)
JoseTwitterFan 4 months ago
@JoseTwitterFan But felt it was a bit unfair as Bill Giles’ forecast after this was actually worse then even Michael’s one i.e. “very breezy up through the channel” said Bill lol
Nightimeguy 4 months ago
not a blooper. he was spot on. it was not a hurricane. not even close
ilovemoviesuk 5 months ago
Move over Kanye West. We found another "Gay Fish". haha
VoiceOfReason11000 5 months ago
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VoiceOfReason11000 5 months ago
Rainbow Fish.
usmanafc 5 months ago
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Something fishy going on here :-)
Darrensen 6 months ago
@DaveBond21....I watched the weather forecast that night and he did say that, and he has even admitted that he got it slightly wrong ! So sort it out !! lol
flick509 6 months ago
@flick509 There is the clip of him saying the opposite. Just search for clips of Michael Fish til you find the one. He doesn't admit to anything.
DaveBond21 5 months ago
Michael Fish was right you fucking tards.
What he should have said was there will be hurricane force winds. However, indeed there was no hurricane as there was no hurricane setup (eg eye of the storm etc)...
EnglishNationalist13 6 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 It wasn't that there was no hurricane setup, it's more that there cannot physically be a hurricane in the UK, waters are far to cold. Only one hurricane has ever hit the British Isles; Hurricane Debbie, 1961.
Leopleuredon 6 months ago
@Leopleuredon not true, Hurricane Charley in 1986
rustyu 4 months ago
@rustyu Hurricane Charley was not a hurricane when it hit the British Isles.
Leopleuredon 4 months ago
@Leopleuredon no but it had created the largest low presser system in 150 years and hurricane force winds
Tom63175 4 months ago
@Leopleuredon You said it is not physically possible for a hurricane in UK and then go on to say that one did hit UK in 1961?? So it IS possible then
alfiesgirluk 4 months ago
@alfiesgirluk Ok, it was badly worded. What I meant was that it is not possible for a hurricane to form near the UK. Usually, as just happened with Katia, by the time an Atlantic hurricane gets to the UK, it has become 'extra-tropical', so it isn't as powerful as a hurricane, but on a rare occasion, as with Debbie, the hurricane will move fast enough that it is still a hurricane when it reaches the UK. The above storm didn't even originate as a hurricane.
Leopleuredon 4 months ago
@EnglishNationalist13 well said
ilovemoviesuk 5 months ago
BBC weather in general is a fuck up, certainly on the website. They say it is very difficult to predict the weather any further than a week ahead. The website can't get it right one day ahead. Pathetic.
Sheepshaggingtaff 6 months ago
This man provided sterling service for years and years and never got a thank you, but he makes the one mistake and everyone is ready to call him horrible names. But remember, you saw shit you harvest shit.
aaaarrrgggghh 6 months ago
@aaaarrrgggghh, I built all these house. Do they call me Bob the Builder? No, they don't. All those roads, I laid myself. Do the call me Bob the Road-maker? No, they do not. All those fields you see ploughed? I ploughed them. Do they call me Bob the farmer? No, they don't. I and I fuck one little sheep...
BingoPower 5 months ago
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technically, he was right. The storm that hit that night wasn't actually a hurricane. Hurricanes are tropical winds, and this wasn't tropical. It was just a very strong storm
Nexxus79 7 months ago
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Nexxus79 7 months ago
Ha ha, of course this clip was from a completely different day to the Great Storm of 1987.
DaveBond21 7 months ago
Are shed blew down !!!!
iamwhoiamwhoiammark2 8 months ago
John Kettley talks about this on best british tv dot com interview
Vanheusen1000 9 months ago
how the hell did ppl start talking about punk for this video?
27isthecoolest 11 months ago 5
Our chippy blew away on that fateful windy day Michael.
ryanzeelee 11 months ago
Your excuse is you have been found out by someone who was there like me. My history is out there with evidence - Just look at the Tubeway Army archive gigs that I recorded at REAL 1977 punk venues. Anyone who kn nows anything about the Punk scene back then knows it wasn't about the post punk acts of 1979 that you refer to, christ even in 1978 it was New Wave not punk. I bet you even believe in Anarcheee ;-P
Elektrapunk1 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1 Woah thats too bad
kingofpunk1977 11 months ago
@kingofpunk1977 - Oh didn't I say?
Elektrapunk1 11 months ago
@Elektrapunk1 1979, eh? My God how time flies... ;)
Jarren202 7 months ago
I did - You just arent that up on your punk - 1979 was post punk where I was knocking around with Ian Curtis - you'll know him from JD. 1979 was a good year that I'll give you. Incidentally Savage is a prick I much preferred the honesty of In the City and Pete Gilbert.
Elektrapunk1 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1 Sorry dude Smash it Up Damned,Gotta Gettaway SLF,Babylons Burning Ruts 1979....Listen mate i know my Transmitters from my Fall to my Punilux from my Gang of 4 from my Metal Box so spare me the life lesson. Anyway why didn't you save Curtis?
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 - Oh no when Punk started to become Novelty. It lasted a year at best if your a purist punk if however you liked Okapi's and manufactured bondage trousers from the likes of Alien then who am I to argue ;-)
Ian couldn't be saved.
Elektrapunk1 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1 I suppose round this time June 1979 you started to have a wedge & wrapped a tea towel round your neck, then when you saw Spandau Ballet do the same thing on TOTP Nov 1980 , you bought your zoot suit blah blah blah. It seems you stopped listening to punk is when the press told you to. Listen mate you weren't there, & if you were you were a wannabe & wasted time cos anyone who was did something . My excuse was in 1976 I was nine years old without pocket money & flared trousers
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1I guess in June 1979 you had a wedge & a tea towel round your neck , then when Spandau did it a year later on TOTP you started to cry. As I said before if you were the right age (18-22 plus) in 1974-1978 you would have done something like John Cooper Clarke, Adam Ant , Julian Cope etc...my excuse was I was 9 years old in 1976 on no pocket money with flared trousers. don't rewrite history...YOU DID NOTHING WHEN EVERYONE AROUND DID!!!!!!
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
HAHA!! Remember this funny blooper from 24 years ago? No? Me neither. I do, however remember those HILARIOUS predictions of the great 1902 storm. Can you post some videos of that?
jayash76 1 year ago
God has said in the Quran: Have you not seen how God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then makes them into a stack, and then you see the rain come out of it.... (Quran, 24:43)
emaan456 1 year ago
@emaan456 Well, that proves it. What it proves, I don't know.
jayash76 1 year ago
@jayash76
It proves that science is discovering what GOD has told us 1400 years ago in HIS BOOK Quran.
So ppl should study it to find the right way of life and to know the insight of life and hereafter.
emaan456 1 year ago
a link to the next video would have been helpful
cominup85 1 year ago
BBC weather is a joke. It says its 4 degrees atm and it totally is not, more like -1 at least.
ASSOLES, I dont know where they get theirt wanky data from but its so inaccurate is a joke.Their website changes the outlook on the whole day almost every hour.
Useless twats.
sweetypie000 1 year ago
Actually, by definition a hurricane is a tropical weather system, therefore Michael Fish was indeed correct when he said that there was not a hurricane coming. The wind speed may have fallen into the category of a hurricane, but by definition it could not have been one.
Jangers721 1 year ago
I have a mug with Michael Fish on :-D
AuroraWhispers 1 year ago
I was living in London at the time, it clearly wasn't a hurricane which blew all the trees around my house down!
MHunt1000 1 year ago
I love you Fisshy Wisshy.
homehub100 1 year ago
There has been a general air of depression ever since. It is common knowledge that the weather was better under a Tory Government.
LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 1 year ago 4
I was working outside ,bloody wild day that was
NEZZA1967 1 year ago
@NEZZA1967
you should of been working nights,bloody rough it was.
chris99140 1 year ago
@chris99140 "you should of been working nights,bloody rough it was."
I drove to work for a 5.15 start...It was erm...Interesting. At least I was in a car. Some poor bloke was battling the winds on a push bike, and dodging bushes which were bouncing across the road, not to mention falling branches. I remember trees blocking the road everywhere. I made many a detour that morning, and people standing outside looking a bit shell shocked at what remained of their cars after trees had crushed them.
JollyRodders 1 year ago
He came into my work place but I didn't quiz him on this? I should have bollocked him tho!!
ThePoo57 1 year ago
You have to remember he gets told what to say, but at the end of the day that doesn't bring back my pear tree
132000Volts 1 year ago 3
guys, come on, give the guy a break, ok, he made a big error, but back then, the weather technology wasnt as advanced as it is today, plus the phone call was like at the last minute, so how was he suppose to really know what the weather was going to be like.
Artprincess247 1 year ago
@Artprincess247
He didn't make an error. Why do you believe that this clip was from that night, when it wasnt.
DaveBond21 7 months ago
@DaveBond21 because i watched the documentery about the storm and some of the tv presenters and weather people explained what really happened. Apperiently, one of the weather researchers tried to call the BBC at the last minute as a warning, but then Micheal fish got the wrong idea and ignored it.
Artprincess247 7 months ago
@DaveBond21 You're wrong I'm afraid. This clip IS from the night of the storm. I'm old enough to remember it well. It's a very famous clip, and Michael Fish has talked about it many times in documentaries since.
MrAJR76 5 months ago
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kilby9 1 year ago
it wasnt a hurricane....
tomtomx4 1 year ago
Back then a 24 hr forecast was pretty much a crap shoot. The computer models did not come into their own until 1993 when they started screaming at the weather forcasters for a week that a large storm was going to form in the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Coast....the forecasters ignored it until the 3 day models still had it.....
It became known as the Super-storm of '93 and then people started listening to the computer models.
Zoomer30 1 year ago
What bugs me about this is that it is often reported that the broadcast was made a few hours before the storm hit, the broadcast came infact from the mid morning news 11AM a good 20 hours before the storm hit. The press have interviewed a few people over the years claiming they were the woman who called the BBC, when asked what time they called they allways give a time several hours after the broadcast was made.
StevieWhelan 1 year ago 2
LOL Fail!
gunsandtanks 1 year ago
Who was the woman? And how did she know?
jamiebrighton1981 1 year ago
michael fish you cuuuuunttt!!!
groovyray 1 year ago
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guitaringjarmin 1 year ago
Is it a blooper because he points to water when he says spain?
JamesTR4 1 year ago
@JamesTR4
*head desk*
kingfroggy 1 year ago
Forgetting the fact that Michael fish was talking about a hurricane somewhere else in the world and not the uk its still funny
BudtheWeiser 1 year ago
Fish you cunt. My fence fell down
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago 130
@kingofpunk1977 i laughed so hard at that. haha
theendingnote 1 year ago
@theendingnote Absolutely true story . My whole family had to repair a fence the following day. Fish really was a dick cheese
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 :-D
morval99 1 year ago
@morval99 What does :-D mean???? If you have something to say , just say it in plain English. Thank you.
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 Turn your head 90 degrees anti-clockwise, look at it again
3kliksphilip 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 :-D
morval99 1 year ago
@morval99 Fuck off lee you bender
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 I tied my fence into place because the weather forecast on the Sunday DID predict a storm...Except they said it would hit on Thursday morning...Then along came Michael :-))
JollyRodders 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 - That was your 22 stone wifes pussy that brought your fence down as she tried to climb it - So Fish Cunt was spot on.
Elektrapunk1 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1 Sorry mate I dont live in Spain & unlike you at least I have had some pussy. Go back to creaming over Lydons book. I bet you were one of those stupid guys who bought the scrapbook
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977 - Not quite Im one of the original's that came out of Devoto territory when Punk didn't need confirmation by adding 77 to your alias ;-) Watch those furballs and make sure she's had her worming tablets.
Elektrapunk1 1 year ago
@Elektrapunk1 If you were that original you would have formed a band , got a cine camera or become an artist or poet. Accept this Punk may have it's origins in 1975/76 but it was until the tail end of 1977 when the records started to come out & much of it's exposure was in fact 1978/79 but of course trendies like you subscribe to the Jon Savage/Mark Perry/Tony Parsons way of things. 1979 was in fact the best period for music
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977
And if he'd warned you, would it have stayed up?
spikepedestal 1 year ago
@spikepedestal I cant believe that some flippant off the cuff comment I made a few months ago has enraged so many people..........IT WAS A JOKE EVERYONE
kingofpunk1977 1 year ago
@kingofpunk1977
I'm too dry, King. I thought your comment was hilarious. Namaste bro'.
spikepedestal 1 year ago
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michael fish talks pish
islampeaceunity 1 year ago
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I can clear up the mystery phone caller who phoned up the Beeb asking them if there was going to be a hurricane. It was Michael Fish's mum telling his son that his dinner's getting cold and he should be back home before 11pm no later. Also not bring home any girls from the Met Office.
Professor6871 1 year ago
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Professor6871 1 year ago
michael fish talks pish
stevom31 1 year ago 29
How wronge can you get?
KELLYCOM1 1 year ago
@KELLYCOM1 As wrong as your spelling of wrong :)
TheOptimod 1 year ago
Hurricane's are the most powerful storm's ever! This michael guy fish should have been looking out of my window when i was six! The telephone pole was touching the concrete backwards then fowards! With trees too! Channel islands! Big mistake to forget!
976doddy 1 year ago
@976doddy Hurricane or not, I was living a few miles from where the Sealink ferry Hengist blew onshore at the Warren. I was 16 at the time. Yes, you're right, it was an unforgettable mistake on the part of the weather forecasters, for sure! 850,000 trees in Kent alone were up-rooted or blown over that night. Unforgettable.
TheMikenco 1 year ago
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My Mum and Dad have a farm next to a woodland, with a stream running through. The day of the storm (I was 7), I remember going into the wood with my Mum, looking down to the stream which was a gushing orange river. I tree gave way from it's earth and came crashing towards us. My Mum and I ran, luckily we were unhurt by the tree. It's something I will never forget!
Jamie10004 1 year ago
look up "chet cloud" he smokes and cusses on the air
clandarkside 1 year ago
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look up "chet cloud" on youtube. he is crazy. he smokes and drinks on the air and calls people poor bastards when he does the weather.
clandarkside 1 year ago
Michael Fish a whole career wrapped up with one sentence. I bet Fish wished he was getting the repeat fees (at least).
lndac02 1 year ago
What wonderul gay backdrop! :P
popaddict 1 year ago
@popaddict
Rainbows aren't gay.
DeathSlayer2 1 year ago
yeah ok maybe not a hurricane...whatever,... but he didnt predict the terrible winds .., great clip, Michael Fish..nice bloke but how embarresing....
Coleshill1 1 year ago
Wow
2cannn 1 year ago
Ooops!
al31230 1 year ago
fail!
ChocolateShoesJOBROS 1 year ago
Guess again, Mike :L
RyanDiamond100 1 year ago
what an epic fail... lol
MumblingMickey 1 year ago
@MumblingMickey Epic fail > Are you American? If so then apologies for what I'm abouts to say, cause if your English then stop using annoying American phrases you fucking idiot, speak English!
Knightoftheorient 5 months ago
@Knightoftheorient No as it turn out I'm Irish... you could have checked that yourself....
I think the manner of my speech...and my grammar is perfectly okay... it was an epic fail!
MumblingMickey 5 months ago
I can see a lot of people is giving the 1987 Hurricane Charlie different name i've always know as Charlie:)
I have a new name for it Hurricane FISH XDXDXD just joking :) i've worked in BBC and met him he's lovely LOL XXXX
121sandstorm 1 year ago
By definition, it was not a hurricane, you thick non-meteorologically educated idiots! Hurricanes do not occur at British latitudes - it was an intense depression, but the positioning of the centre of the low, not the severity of the storm was the fault. It was less intense than the braer storm of '93, but since that didn't affect anywhere down south nothing much was made of it.
cwpiper93 1 year ago
@cwpiper93 It did affect down south. Stop being a cunt.
theguvnorjimmy 1 year ago
...and it were still blowing a gale the day. And we still went to school...
SonoraAeroClub 2 years ago
i wasnt born till 88, did this ruin his whole career or something
jimmyshitbags 2 years ago
@jimmyshitbags since the electricity went out over Britain in 87... you are probably a direct result of the storm... lol
MumblingMickey 1 year ago
hahaha cheers for the horrible mental image
jimmyshitbags 1 year ago
I remember doing my paper round in it! I was a 12 year old kid. mental. I wouldn't step foot outside if it happened now.
notinclement 2 years ago
I was living in oxford, a few hours after this broadcast there was trees flying past my windows lol
porbello9 2 years ago
Yes porbello9- That was when Seven Oaks in Kent became Three Oaks in Kent. They showed them blown down, incredible. Felt sorry for Fishy still what do you expect from an expert- they tend to be over-confident...
johnnywindows1 2 years ago
@johnnywindows1 I seem to remember the following monday being black monday and a huge stockmarket crash, i thought god ive only been in the south east a week and its all fuked up lol
porbello9 2 years ago
That was Hurricane Charlie. Both Britain and Ireland were slammed the next evening. Never seen anything like it since.
orient1961 2 years ago
I dont get it, what did he do wrong?
Awgez24 2 years ago
He said there wasn't going to be a hurricane. The next day, England was hit by one of the biggest hurricanes in living memory!
impressionsbysimon 2 years ago
there turned out to be a hurricane!
dannyburge 2 years ago
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spookymcfuzzy 2 years ago
"A woman rang up today saying there was a hurricane on the way, don't worry, there isn't."
That night a huge hurricane hit the south east of England causing immense damage, entire woodlands flattened, roofs ripped off hundreds of homes and damage in the millions upon millions of pounds.
It was the biggest 'blooper' of his career, one of the most respected weather forecasters in the country.
IMCopywriting 2 years ago
i wouldnt say it was a blooper, as there wasnt a hurricane. The UK cannot get hurricanes, but I believe that many viewers just assume hurricanes are really strong winds... so when he said there wasnt a hurricane, many may have felt there wasnt going to be strong winds.
There were very strong winds, but there was no hurricane, so that is where people feel he made the mistake.
SamUKest89 2 years ago
@SamUKest89 Actually, ther was. I lived through it.
MMxBiiohazard 1 year ago
you lived through strong winds, not a hurricane :)
SamUKest89 1 year ago
that night there was a massive hurricaine like england had never seen before - tons of trees blew over, roads were blocked, schools were closed.
THe south of the country was shut down.
ttimothymurphy 2 years ago
there was a hurricane that night
Athavan789 2 years ago
the biggest fuck up in weather reporting history
lamplight5 2 years ago
Testing weather manipulation maybe
and now every blue sky day we have lines all over the sky....ever wonder why ???
the next day is always dull and nasty .
snaed27 2 years ago
You're right- the lines in the sky aren't from planes at all, its all some kind of conspiracy to create dull days! Dull overcast days are ideal for alien landings and giant world-dominating lizards and blah blah BLEURGH
fridaynightsmoke 2 years ago
@fridaynightsmoke david icke warned us about the giant world dominating lizards, and what did we do ?..we laughed our tits off.
peterpeterxxo 3 months ago
he is actually right- it wasnt a hurricane that hit. the sea temps arent warm enough. it was just a big storm
TopViralVids 2 years ago
he was accidentely talking about a hurricane in florida- which didn't hit the british isles. you are right though either way
StuntPrime35 2 years ago
the message from stuntprime was me, we just use the same connection.sorry
Monkeyballmania 2 years ago
It was kinda hard to tell the weather in them days lol
TkMToM1993 2 years ago
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 webpage!
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'
Really, their skill at determining what the weather will be like in an hours time is appauling let alone what occurring tomorrow or next week
sweetypie000 2 years ago
hehe great to see him on GMTV doing the weather.
logom0 2 years ago 2
whoops-a-daisy!
joanneronny 2 years ago 2
Didn't they have weather satellites then?
Zabeus0 2 years ago
no, there was no weather satellites back then - now that we have them the weather reports are deadly accurate all the time, aren't they?...
rabbitpi 2 years ago
I think I saw a clip from '79 somewhere on here with a satellite picture- probably wasn't comprehensive tho'.
thelyniezian 2 years ago
classic fish
cheekyegg 2 years ago
ACTUALLY kids michael fish at the beginning of this clip was responding to a call from a woman who had heard about hurricane potential in the US (i think east coast) where she was about to go on holiday - he wasn't talking about the UK there (though he still kinda messed up)
pabloinnit 2 years ago
False.
On youtube search for
BBC weather Michael Fish mystery phone caller revealed 1987
Youll get a documentary segment about it, interviewing the people who called him,
dawatticus 2 years ago
I remember wakin gup at 6 in the morn thinking WTF! it was scary whole house was shaking we lived next to a field on the end of a cul de sac in the end all we lost was a roof tile! but it was bloody scary!
limeyosu 2 years ago
I think it was because if one lady heard it, chances are more people heard it, so he was addressing everyone's concerns (albeit incorrectly)
The111DooD 2 years ago
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.....and who's this lady??? did she have a special weather devices that the met didnt have ?
its more like the lady.........was a top american weather forcaster and the usa so it coming and warned the UK.
jedimasterseth 2 years ago
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You know what its VERY strange that he comments on a 'lady calling up saying a hurricanes on the way!'
why the heck would he say that and then there actually was hurricane force winds that night.
It makes me wonder about a cover up! its like they new it was coming and maybe they weren't aloud to say because of mass panic that might of spread.
because, why oh why would he quote someone about a hurricane,,,,??? and then it happens. its all very strange.
jedimasterseth 2 years ago
It wasn't a hurricane. A hurricane has almost continuous high windspeeds, where as this storm had gusts up to hurricane speed.
However, it was still a blooper as the winds were a lot worse than expected.
MarkNobes 2 years ago 6
You're right. It wasn't a hurricane. The sea tempretures around the UK are way to low to support tropical air systems. In that sense, Fish was right.
Certain storms here can produce hurricane force winds (briefly) but they are all extra-tropical and come off the North Atlantic Storm Track hitching a ride on the jet stream.
Fish did get this one wrong tho. Poor guy.
metrx330 2 years ago 3
@metrx330 haha yup, he was technically correct
dungusMcdee 1 year ago
@MarkNobes It was a hurricane it was born in the Atlantic in the tropics, a hurricane is a tropical storm that has to be born in the tropics & has to hit 74mph before it is classed as a hurricane, it was from the tropics & brushed against the USA & came over the Atlantic & then hit the UK, so yes it was a hurricane & hit over 74mph & was from the tropics of the Atlantic ocean.
iguanna41 1 year ago
@MarkNobes The winds on the south coast had mean-speeds of hurricane force, in some exposed channel areas mean speeds of 85mph where reported with gusts over 120mph, but inland and in particular London your right mean-speeds where lower but still around 60mph so a strong gale with hurricane force gusts of 90mph plus, parts of Essex and Kent had gusts upto 110mph.
Knightoftheorient 5 months ago
@Knightoftheorient no sorry . although this storm produced strong gusts of wind (up to 120mph) the maximum sustained wind speed was 46MPH , making it nothing more than a tropical storm. a weak one at that . a tropical storm is when winds are sustained between 39 mph and 74mph. (so at 46mph it was only a weak tropical storm) a hurricane is when sustained winds are AT LEAST 75MPH. Our storm was nowhere NEAr that. Hurricanes are impossible in england. seas to cold
Us english love to go overboard
ilovemoviesuk 5 months ago
@ilovemoviesuk That isn't true, it was winds of hurricane force. It's just Hurricanes have different wind profile and distribution to storms, and significantly higher precipitation levels. Nevertheless it still had Hurricane force winds.
erzan 4 months ago 2
@erzan straight out of wikipedia
Flightisable 5 days ago
aah.
To everyone watching, witness the birth of the "weatherman is NEVER right" joke!
J4mes1991 2 years ago
(Quote) if a HURRICANE had hit us, it would have been much worse.
Urm no it wouldnt have been, the highest recorded windspeeds in this storm where around 120mph equivelant to a category 3 hurricane, the insurance claims topped £1.4 billion almost as much as the insurance claims from Hurricane Andrew
Knightoftheorient 2 years ago
@Knightoftheorient noo!!!!!!!!! omg you thick moron lol You failed on your own comment. Highest recorded windspeed as in GUST. a catagory 3 hurricane has SUSTAINED winds at 120MPH omg dont comment on youtube ever again
ilovemoviesuk 5 months ago