Weather Men, the golden generation

Today the death of Ian MacSkill has been announced, Macskill was one of a quartet of weather forecasters who left a huge impact the national psyche. Michael Fish who was right to refute a women who had phoned to say that a hurricane was coming the UK's way, the only problem was that the winds that did come were of near hurricane levels. John Kettley who became immortalised by the band A Tribe of Toffs with the song John Kettley is a Weatherman. Bill Giles was seen as so reliable he ended up selling retirement insurance. MacSkill himself was always enthuisnatic despite how horrible the weather was. The four of them achieved a level of fame that their predecessors and successors never achieved.