"Dave.C" wrote in
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It just goes to show that if something is said enough it becomes gospel
- hence the urban myth.
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". !

I like to think that Piers Corbyn was the pioneer of "professional
meteorological crowing" with Weather Action. He was crowing about extreme
weather long before the advert of Metcheque etc..

It's a simple rule - crow about a forthcoming event a month off with lots of
hyperbole, then stay very quiet if nothing happens (as it does in the large
majority of occasions) and no-one will notice you - or double crow if it
comes off and then people say "oh yes, I remember that forecast".

Richard