Met Office forecasters in line for a bank holiday bonus

'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.