As promised here is my interview with the great former BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish from earlier this week. Also below is April's weather update which this month comes from the Met Office. See today's Daily Express, for the full interview, and of course the latest on the weather. Also click here for .....  April's weather roundup ,  my day at the Met Office   and ... the mighty Fish ..

When you want advice about the weather, who do you ask? Well, for the past four months I have been putting my faith (for the purposes of this blog only), in the Admiral Fitzroy storm glass. It has faithfully predicted bouts of snow, ice, and even the odd milder spell, while sitting on the desk in my study. However, I learnt today that I may have been doing this all wrong. And this word of advice came from another weather aficionado, the one and only Michael Fish MBE. I spent a very pleasant morning with this meteorological guru most famed for 'that' incident in October 1987 when he failed to predict the Great Storm was about to raze parts of Britain to the ground. That aside, the former BBC forecaster has been at the forefront of his profession for the past 40 years. Although he is not on our screens as often as he was during the 80s and 90s, he is still very much considered to be one of the top in the weather forecasting business. Look out fo...