This is apocryphal but it has come to me twice from different sources, many years ago.
A certain Group Captain , famous for his role in THE forecast of 1944, was saaid to be unwise enough to sit in the front in a dive in Hamburg soon after victory. The exhibish apparently made use of his hat as a prop.
As I say, apocryphal but it does lend spice to what otherwise has always seemed to me to be a strange story of "weather by committee"