TYPICAL! We get a little bit of half decent weather and ITV decides to go and remind us that usually we can expect floods, pestilence and the occasional plague.

Last night's Weather From Hell was one of those programmes which leave you asking why?

It was a cross between You've Been Framed and Armageddon as we witnessed natural disaster after natural disaster. You half expected to see Bruce Willis emerging from a hail storm to announce that there was no need to panic and that the world was safe in his hands.

But as for it being prime time viewing I think not.

I suspect that the TV companies have got World Cup fever they have become so accustomed to showing matches from Germany that on the nights when there is no football they just decide to hunt in their cupboard and put on anything that they can find.

I know that the summer period has always been a fallow one for quality TV but just look at the number of repeats which have been aired recently.

I really do feel sorry for anyone who isn't a football fan as they will have been devoid of anything worth watching for the best part of a month.

Anyway, rant over and back to Weather From Hell.

Out came the boffins to explain why we appear to be getting more and more wild weather. Forget the scientific explanations and global warming, don't they know that things have never been the same since they put a man on the moon?