It was must-watch 'TV' when Storm Eunice smashed into the UK with high winds causing widespread disruption.
Airports were particularly affected as planes came into land buffeted by strong gales and one YouTube channel became cult viewing.
And today (Saturday, February 19) Jerry Dyer, who runs the YouTube channel Big Jet TV, said his efforts to livestream aircraft battling with high winds as they attempt to land at London’s Heathrow Airport during Storm Eunice attracted more than five million viewers.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mr Dyer said: “Yesterday, when the whole Storm Eunice, and prior to that Storm Dudley… I said in the morning… I wonder if we can possibly reach 30,000 people watching live, as many as we did during Storm Ciara.
“Every now and then you’d glance at the number of people watching and you’re like, 88,000 people… 105,000 people – it was just going mad.
“At the end of the day we ended up with… normally we’d have about 100,000-plus views, and we had, from when I went to sleep last night, it was 5.5 million views.”
You can see Big Jet TV below
Mr Dyer said at one point there were 238,000 viewers watching live during the channel’s peak popularity on Friday.
Today presenter Nick Robinson said: “They dream of that at GB News, I’ll tell you that. It was an extraordinary number of people watching.”
Three people in the UK were killed as Storm Eunice lashed the country. It has now departed eastward but severe weather warnings remain in place.
