Note: Urgent!

Weather forecasts during news bulletins sometimes get sidelined, with people treating the segment as just additional information unless a
severe weather calamity is on the horizon. During one lunchtime broadcast in 1987, BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish casually and non-urgently reported a call they received from a woman saying a hurricane was on the way.

He responded to this on-air by saying, “Well, if you’re watching, don’t worry, there isn’t.” That happened to be one of the last broadcasts before the Great Storm of 1987, which became the most damaging natural disaster in the U.K. since 1703. Afterward, Fish apologized for his laid-back approach to the matter.