"Gianna Stefani" wrote in message
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"Dave.C" wrote in message
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I am praying this will be a hard winter, not for my usual selfish
reasons,
but to spare Metcheque the most massive egg on face since MF "no
hurricane, madam". !

Although he was of course correct, both for the UK and for the part of the
world to which he (and the lady) were referring.

'urban myths' ... why do I have to keep reading the MF myth even though I
live 'in the country' ... sigh.

Have your ever thought, Gianna, that Mike Fish's own
version might be the mythical one?

Here is the full transcript of the first part of his 1325z broadcast,
published in the Meteorological Office Report: The Storm of
15-16 October 1987, Met.O., December 1987, p 4.19:

"Good afternoon earlier on today apparently a woman rang the
BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way.
Well of you are watching don't worry, there isn't. But having said
that actually the weather will become very windy but most of
the strong winds incidentally will be down over Spain and across
France as well but there is a vicious looking area of low pressure
on our doorstep nevertheless, around the Brittany area and
that is going to head across the southeastern corner of the
country bringing if nothing else a lot of rain with it. On the
satellite picture you can see that there is of course a lot of
cloud as well as a lot of rain stretching right across Europe and
indeed most areas there are just as unsettled as we are having
some outbreaks of rain. That's the way the rainfall pattern is
looking at the moment, a lot of shading, a lot of rain across
many parts of Europe. Let's zoom in a little bit closer and
have a look at the British scene though, as you can see rain
is now further north left over from last nights weather system.
Now as I run the sequence you can see just how quickly the
rain comes up from France, affects many southern and eastern
areas and then eventually later on tonight clears on out of the
way and leaves us tomorrow in a fairly stiff run of westerly
winds bringing along quite a few showers."

[Spelling and punctuation as in the report's transcript]

Philip Eden