When to warn and when not to

Former weather forecaster Bill Giles has attacked the number of storm warnings that have been given recently, saying it is nothing more than 'nannying'. Though this does recall the infamous incident in 1987 when Giles's colleague Micheal Fish when having apparently having been phoned by a women who told him that a hurricane was heading towards the United Kingdom and Fish refuted this. But what did happen was the UK was hit by a storm that killed 19 people. Many years later Fish said that there was no such female caller and the whole hurricane business was being told by a BBC staff member that they Mother was going on holiday to the USA and said to her son that a 'storm was coming'. Fish decided to use this as a opening line little knowing how history would judged him. Perhaps Giles should have remembered what happened to his old colleague.