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The high pressure that brings good weather has an odd effect on your analogue TV. When the picture goes squiffy the consolation for the urban bushman is that it can be explained with a neat bit of weather science.

If your picture is normally clear and you suddenly start to see evenly spaced stripes or bars across the screen in a ‘Venetian blind’ effect, then there’s good weather on the way. That’s all there is to it really. Try adjusting the aerial. If you can’t fix it, the effect is definitely caused by high pressure. The picture won’t improve till the weather worsens, which seems fair.

There isn’t long left to view TV on an analogue signal, so make the most of this while you can. In our digital future it will become a distant memory. I already have my own nostalgic image stored away of a hot teenage summer trying to watch Borg and Connors battle it out over five sets through the stripey-green snow on the TV.