"Michael Fish" Order of the British Empire/MBE is a semi-retired United Kingdom/British weather forecasting/weather forecaster, best known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office.

He became infamous in the wake of the Great Storm of 1987; a few hours before the storm broke, on 15 October 1987, he said during a forecast: "Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't!". That evening, the worst storm to hit South East England for three centuries caused record damage and killed 19 people.

More than eight years after retiring from the BBC national forecast, he is now making a return to regular forecasting, presenting a weekly weather forecast for [http://www.netweather.tv Netweather.tv] and occasional forecasts for BBC South East Today, BBC London and Radio Kent.

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I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

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Reports of a hurricane are unfounded. (Said before the biggest hurricane to hit Britain for decades).

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The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

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We are eternally grateful that Luke Howard came up with such an easy and straightforward way of naming clouds.

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We talked about climate change.

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