It is 30 years to the day since weatherman Michael Fish told us there was no need to worry about a hurricane. Within hours, 18 lives were lost and 15 million trees uprooted across the whole of southern England in the 100-mile-an-hour winds that roared across the Bay of Biscay and up the Channel.

In this edition of Inside Out, Michael Fish presents a special programme in which he retraces the route of the storm from Dorset to Sussex in a 1987 Austin Maestro, visiting some of the places left devastated that night. Along the way, he bursts some of the myths about that fateful forecast and finds out from Tomasz Schafernaker whether the Met Office's new supercomputer would get it right now. Show less