Am I getting warm?

IN OCTOBER 1987, weatherman Michael Fish stood in front of a rainbow graphic and reported that a woman had phoned the BBC to say a hurricane was on the way.

“Well if you’re watching, don’t worry,” Fish reassured his viewers. “There isn’t.”

Two days later, 18 people were dead, millions of trees were uprooted and a cross-channel ferry had been driven ashore. It was England’s worst storm in living memory.