BBC1 weather forecast, 31 January 1979 - Richard Baker ends the lunchtime news and introduces Michael Fish for the weather, then continuity with BBC globe and beginning of Pebble Mill titles
I prefer this presentation, fridge magnets and all, compared to the techno crap of today. The measured pace, clear charts, informed (informing) talk from Michael Fish. Does anyone else agree with me?
I remember January 1979 very, very well. I was living in the remote countryside then and we got snowed in. There were snowdrifts about five feet high between the hedges. It was AMAZING!!
Are yo absolutely sure this is dated 31st January 1979. I remember that day very well - it snowed and snowed and it was the day after we had moved to a new house. We were just outside Sheffield. This forecast doesn't actually depict what occurred snowise that day - it was much colder than 4 or 5 degrees.
I'm pretty certain that first map was designed purely to highlight and compliment that jacket. A pencil as a pointer!! Man, that's some crazy old skool tech. I don't think I've seen a pencil on telly since Words And Pictures ended.
Until you reach the point - which we arguably have - where if you're outside that mythical "wider audience" you are left with nothing amid all the pseudo-choice ...
In the south that winter it snowed heavily on New Year's Eve and stayed for the rest of the school holidays so we got some tobogganing,snowball fights,etc. in (I was 14) - there was a night on which it reached minus 22 in Scotland and there were people up there stranded on at least one train that ground to a halt in it and farmers having to dig their sheep out! The snow returned on 23rd January,falling heavily and settling deeply for most of the time until the middle of February. I lost my shoe in a snowdrift and had to wait days until it melted to find it. There was a big bank of cleared snow at one end of the playing fields that didn't melt away entirely until the break-up for the Easter holidays were nearly upon us.
Bless Richard Baker who recently passed away. I remember this forecast as though it was yesterday. I was stunned by Michael Fish's sleight of card weather symbol trick when he swapped rain for sleet at
The winter of 1978/79 was one of the harshest of the last 50 years with blizzards and long periods of snowfall. It was made worse by a local government strike, where many roads were not gritted, and disputes involving tanker and freight drivers. My school had to close for 2 weeks because there was no heating oil, not bad after having 2 weeks off for Christmas.
The days when the people who bring us our weather forecasts did not think they were talking to a nation of Dummies... This reminds you how "dumbed bown" our TV can be in so many areas...
I prefer this presentation, fridge magnets and all, compared to the techno crap of today. The measured pace, clear charts, informed (informing) talk from Michael Fish. Does anyone else agree with me?
Y'know, I was just wondering what the weather was going to be on 31st Jan' 1979.
I remember January 1979 very, very well. I was living in the remote countryside then and we got snowed in. There were snowdrifts about five feet high between the hedges. It was AMAZING!!
Are yo absolutely sure this is dated 31st January 1979. I remember that day very well - it snowed and snowed and it was the day after we had moved to a new house. We were just outside Sheffield. This forecast doesn't actually depict what occurred snowise that day - it was much colder than 4 or 5 degrees.
Blimey, you wouldn't hear a word like 'occlusion' in the the BBC forecast these days!
I want TV weather forecasts like that now! Without all these digital technologies, you know... Just a funny dude moving little things around the map.
I'm pretty certain that first map was designed purely to highlight and compliment that jacket.
A pencil as a pointer!! Man, that's some crazy old skool tech. I don't think I've seen a pencil on telly since Words And Pictures ended.
Until you reach the point - which we arguably have - where if you're outside that mythical "wider audience" you are left with nothing amid all the pseudo-choice ...
That's a hell of a comb-over from Michael Fish
Anyone here in 2020?
In the south that winter it snowed heavily on New Year's Eve and stayed for the rest of the school holidays so we got some tobogganing,snowball fights,etc. in (I was 14) - there was a night on which it reached minus 22 in Scotland and there were people up there stranded on at least one train that ground to a halt in it and farmers having to dig their sheep out! The snow returned on 23rd January,falling heavily and settling deeply for most of the time until the middle of February. I lost my shoe in a snowdrift and had to wait days until it melted to find it. There was a big bank of cleared snow at one end of the playing fields that didn't melt away entirely until the break-up for the Easter holidays were nearly upon us.
This is so old school its brilliant
Bless Richard Baker who recently passed away. I remember this forecast as though it was yesterday. I was stunned by Michael Fish's sleight of card weather symbol trick when he swapped rain for sleet at
The winter of 1978/79 was one of the harshest of the last 50 years with blizzards and long periods of snowfall. It was made worse by a local government strike, where many roads were not gritted, and disputes involving tanker and freight drivers. My school had to close for 2 weeks because there was no heating oil, not bad after having 2 weeks off for Christmas.
The days when the people who bring us our weather forecasts did not think they were talking to a nation of Dummies...
This reminds you how "dumbed bown" our TV can be in so many areas...
theres no fancy graphics to distract us fromm the actual forecast, and I love the detail he puts in.
I keep waiting for the synth to chime in and for the beats to drop. Thank you, Liam Howlett, for planting 'Weather Experience' in my head.
Brilliant! From the days when weathermen knew what they were talking about!
That satellite pic 🤣
Damn I was literally 8 days old when this forecast was made