What are the UK Shipping Forecast areas?
What are the UK Shipping Forecast areas?
Region names
- Viking.
- North Utsire.
- South Utsire.
- Forties.
- Cromarty.
- Forth.
- Tyne.
- Dogger.
Who used to read the shipping forecast?
The voice of the shipping forecast for 40 years has lent his soothing tones to a new meditation app designed to help people get to sleep. Peter Jefferson, who read the iconic BBC Radio 4 maritime weather forecast from 1969 to 2009, has reinvented the broadcast as a sleep story for Calm.com.
What does cyclonic wind mean?
Wind. Wind direction. Indicates the direction from which the wind is blowing. Becoming cyclonic. Indicates that there will be considerable change in wind direction across the path of a depression within the forecast area.
What are the sources of weather information?
Sources of weather forecasts include: National meteorological offices. Internet – good source for GRIB forecasts (Gridded Information in Binary files),eg UGrib, weather charts, web services eg Windguru also back-up to VHF, NAVTEX, INMARSAT-C and SSB radio.
What does Viking mean in the shipping forecast?
Viking is actually the name of a sandbank in the North Sea. This area is stormy, heavily tidal and also shallow.
How often does the Shipping Forecast come out?
The shipping forecast is issued four times a day at 2300, 0500, 1100, 1700 UTC and covers a period of 24 hours from 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC respectively. The waters around the British Isles are divided into 31 sea areas shown on the map.
How many words are in the BBC Shipping Forecast?
You can see more about the history of it on #BBCNewsSix Jo pic.twitter.com/7tDwcys15p Using a strict 350-380 word limit, the forecast follows a set pattern as the announcer moves clockwise around the various areas (see below) of sea around the British Isles.
When did the BBC fail to transmit the Shipping Forecast?
On Friday, May 30, 2014, for the first time ever the BBC failed to transmit the Shipping Forecast at 0520. While the announcer read the forecast, producers failed to switch from the BBC World Service back to Radio 4, meaning listeners could not hear it. What are the areas the Shipping Forecast covers?
When is the Shipping Forecast on Longwave Radio 4?
The Shipping Forecast is broadcast on longwave Radio 4 at four precise times a day: 0048, 0520, 1201 and 1754.