‘Don’t Worry, There’s No Tornado Coming’, Broadsheet tells readers before tornado comes
Back in 1987, BBC weatherman Michael Fish revealed that a viewer had called in to ask if there was a hurricane on the way and confidently told British viewers: “Don’t worry – there isn’t.”
The ensuing hurricane instead turned out to be one of the devastating storms the country had seen, and Fish never lived it down.
Yesterday, hipster tipsheet Broadsheet joined the club, venturing into metereology to tell Facebook followers: “Don’t Worry, There’s No Tornado Coming.”
Minutes later, the 213kmh tornado duly arrived in Sydney.
As one Facebook follower suggested to Broadsheet, it might be best to pedal their fixies a bit further before making such a big call next time.
Making predictions is never easy……
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Perhaps Time Out hadn’t published anything for them to copy out that day?
These blogs should stick to blogging… not attempting to report on news.
Why would anyone copy anything Time Out did?
Hi Fraser t,
I’ve made much more disastrous predictions than that….
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Michael Fish continued to front the Beeb’s weather for quite some time after that, which proved he was no blow-in.
And Fish was technically correct. It wasn’t a hurricane but an extra-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds. But only weather nerds like me know the difference or care when 400-year-old oak trees are being uprooted. I was there.
It was wet. It was windy. I looked at the radar and knew it was going to be crazy. (That wasn’t meant to rhyme?).