'Sunshine, mediocre temperatures, high winds with associated wind chill, icy blasts, rain, hail, snow and fog all on a bank holiday weekend, and that's just Brighton,' said a Met Office union leader adding, 'and nobody predicted it. If that isn't bonus territory, I don't know what is. Michael Fish dined out for years on his "gale, what gale" moment years ago. It's practically custom and practise,' he added.
A Met Office manager was less convinced. 'They didn't predict hell freezing over either, but that's the starting point in this organisation,' he pointed out.
