Get ready to batten down the hatches - Weather the storm

Our weather forecasters would, hopefully, forgive us if we secretly hope that dire warnings about the looming Beast from the East are as inaccurate as a BBC forecast made by Michael Fish who, just over 30 years ago, shrugged off a suggestion that a hurricane was about to hit Britain.

“Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she had heard a hurricane was on the way,” chirped Fish with a misplaced sense of certainty, “well I can assure people watching, don’t worry, there isn’t.” Repent at your leisure etc...