If you’re out and about on a Sunday Morning, and Radio National is feeling a little too highbrow for your mood, and Macca’s red-necked intolerance is sounding very 1980’s, and the adds on Sports SEN are driving you mad, then flick over to Triple R’s Radio Marinara.

In the course of its existence, the forecast has saved thousands of lives but its practical application has long been superseded by more precise meteorological and satellite data: the forecast is said to be around 93 per cent accurate. Hence, the vast majority of its remaining 6.5mn listeners today are landlubbers, tucked up safe on dry land.