Rain or drizzle, fog patches developing. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor. Listing the weather conditions in 31 sea areas surrounding the British Isles, the Shipping Forecast is read out at 5. The first and last broadcasts of the day also include reports from additional weather stations and inshore waters forecasts. The last one also includes an outlook for next-day weather across the UK itself.
Forth, Tyne, West Dogger: Westerly or northwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Slight or moderate. Moderate, occasionally rough. Fair then occasional rain, fog patches later. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor later. The names derive from sandbanks e. Humber, Thames: West or northwest 4 or 5. Mainly fair. Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth: Variable 3 or 4. The southernmost region, Trafalgar is only mentioned standard in the last forecast of the day.
The regions are always listed in the same order, starting north with Viking, between Scotland and Norway, and then proceeding in a roughly clockwise direction:. Biscay: Northeast 4 or 5, increasing 6 at times. Southeast Fitzroy: Northerly or northeasterly 5 or 6, occasionally 7 at first. A few others are mentioned only in the broadcast: Boulmer, Milford Haven, Liverpool Crosby, Machrihanish Automatic, among others. Forth — named after a river estuary the Firth of Forth. The name originated from Gaelic and means Black River.
The river itself is 29 miles long and is the major river draining the eastern part of Central Scotland. Seafarers will be familiar with the famous Bell Rock lighthouse, the oldest working lighthouse in the world and the legend of the Inchcape Rock.
Fear of striking the rock was sometimes so great that vessels were wrecked on neighbouring shores while trying to avoid it. Tyne - named after the river estuary of the River Tyne. Little is known about the origins of the name although it is thought that tin was a word meaning river in the local Celtic language. The river is a confluence of the North and the South Tyne which converge near Hexham in Northumberland.
Included in the area is the town of Whitby in Yorkshire which was home to Captain Cook for three years. It was here that he studied and learned from the waters of the east coast how to charter through unknown seas. Dogger — a sandbank in the North Sea. It is about miles long and 60 miles wide and is approximately 20m shallower than the surrounding area. It is a productive fishing ground for cod and has been the site of several naval battles.
They opened fire and inflicted carnage on the fishing boats, not once wondering why they were not retaliating. The incident caused outrage and brought Britain and Russia to the brink of war. The tragedy was commemorated by a statue which stands in Hull. The area used to be larger but was subdivided, the north eastern half being renamed Fisher. Fisher — named after a sandbank off the west coast of Denmark. THE Shipping Forecast, broadcast four times a day on Radio 4, is a national institution - although to many it is little more than incomprehensible words and numbers.
But it is, in fact, a vital tool for Britain's sailors and fishermen navigating our rugged coast. Here's how it works The Shipping Forecast is broadcast on longwave Radio 4 at four precise times a day: , , and Using a unique and detailed scale system, it tells sailors and fishermen on Britain and Ireland's coastal waters what weather to expect in the coming hours. He created it in response to a passenger ship being wrecked off Anglesey two years earlier, killing people.
The hymnal cadences of Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, through Shannon, Rockall, Malin all the way to south-east Iceland, will be heard as usual on Thursday, as the shipping forecast celebrates years of uninterrupted service. The shipping forecast, the longest continuous weather forecast ever made, has been a public service since when it was used to warn of storms.
The warnings were first issued using the electric telegraph until radio became available. Storm warnings were sent over the telegraph wires to harbours, where signals were hoisted to warn ships at sea. When the BBC was formed in the s, the maritime forecast became a fixture of the daily wireless programme where it would remain with occasional modifications and a break during the war when the broadcast was discontinued for fear it would help the enemy.
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