Weatherman McCaskill left £520k in will

WEATHERMAN Ian McCaskill, who died at 78 last December, left £521,662 in his will.

McCaskill presented weather reports on the BBC from 1979 to 1998 – a familiar face to millions with his thick rimmed glasses and tousled hair.

He produced the inaccurate forecast on the evening before the Great Storm of October 1987 when Michael Fish told the nation no hurricane was due.

Probate records reveal that McCaskill left a fifth of his estate to his second wife, Pat Cromack. The couple married in 1998 after McCaskill’s first wife Lesley died of cancer in 1992. The remaining 80 per cent was split between his two daughters, Kirsty and Victoria, from his first marriage.

McCaskill, below, joined the Met Office after National Service with the RAF. He later regularly appeared on game shows such as Blankety Blank and Have I Got News For You.