BBC Weather Started With This Amazing Dad's Joke Last Night

"Dull, grey, cold, miserable... and that's just me."

After the Weekend News on BBC One yesterday evening, John Hammond opened that night's weather forecast with this amazing line:

libby @libbyfennessy

Me as a weather presenter

Sun Feb 12 18:04:21 UTC+0000 2017

The original video has nearly received 17,000 retweets on Twitter.

Behold: the most amazing self-deprecating and British opening line to a weather report.

BBC Weather

Essentially... it's this.

rhianwen @taIkinghead

@coolmoleman @libbyfennessy @just_tesni this is such a dad joke I love it

08:33 PM - 12 Feb 2017

John Hammond has since tweeted this.

John Hammond @hammondweather

Good to see my #dadjoke helps to engage Great British Public in its favourite subject #weather https://t.co/JDibrIHZsd

03:14 PM - 13 Feb 2017