Weerwoord | Storm werd wel gezien maar pakte zwaarder uit dan verwacht

Met name boven land, er was wel wind en regen verwacht voor het vasteland, maar dat pakte achteraf zwaarder uit dan de avond van te voren werd verwacht.
De regio's op zee hadden allemaal wel stormwaarschuwingen gehad.

En gingen allemaal geruchten over orkaan kracht, dat probeerde de weerman van dienst toen af te zwakken:

"And to the lady from Wales who rang to say she'd heard a hurricane was on the way, don't worry there isn't, but it will be extremely windy, particularly across the south". So said Michael Fish on the evening of 15 October 1987 and thus was born the most famous quote from TV weather forecasting. In the ensuing hours the most severe storm for nearly 300 years raged across the southern half of the country and although there is much argument about whether it should be called a 'hurricane', it was without doubt a very remarkable event.

TV weather presenter Michael Fish will long be remembered for telling viewers, the evening before the storm struck, that there would be no hurricane. But he was unfortunate. Fish was referring to a tropical cyclone over the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean that day. This storm, he said, would not reach the British Isles - and it didn't.

Zie oa:
http://www.metoffice.com/corporate/pressoffice/anniversary/storm1987.html
http://www.metoffice.com/education/secondary/students/1987.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/michael_fish_1987storm.shtml