• The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office...
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  • zones). Royal Navy weather forecasts are generally provided by naval officers, not Met Office personnel. The Shipping Forecast is produced by the Met Office...
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    extended Shipping Forecasts on BBC Radio 4 at 0048 and 0520 local time each day. The stations are listed in the order they are read in the forecast, the numbers...
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    Shipping Forecast, part of the broadcast output of BBC Radio 4. If a considerable time will intervene before the next Shipping Forecast, forecasters may...
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  • weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was...
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    with BBC Radio 4 on 9 February 2003. In 2001 he began reading the Shipping Forecast, a weather report for the seas around the British Isles, which is...
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    warning service for shipping was initiated in February 1861, with the use of telegraph communications. The first daily weather forecasts were published in...
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    five seconds and online up to 23 seconds. Radio 4 broadcasts the Shipping Forecast which, in August 2017, was 150 years old. According to RAJAR, the...
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    "North Utsire" and "South Utsire", two of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast. Aasa Helgesen (1877–1968), a Norwegian midwife (1903-1942) and politician...
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    seas such as the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the Sea of Japan, the Baltic Sea, and, very rarely, the North Sea. Shipping Forecast US Army Engineer Research...
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    Cape Trafalgar (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    Cape Trafalgar (/trəˈfælɡər/; Spanish: Cabo Trafalgar [ˈkaβo tɾafalˈɣaɾ]) is a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain. The 1805 naval...
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    Dogger Bank (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 kilometres (62 mi)...
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    German Bight (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    the Heligoland Bight. Between 1949 and 1956 the BBC Sea Area Forecast (Shipping Forecast) used "Heligoland" as the designation for the area now referred...
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  • samples a recording of BBC Radio 4 announcer Brian Perkins reading the Shipping Forecast for the North Sea region of the United Kingdom. The title of the song...
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    music composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, which is used before the late Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4. A slow waltz, the piece uses a repetitive ABCAB structure...
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    Fair Isle (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    Fair Isle (/ˈfɛər aɪl/ FAIR eyel; Old Norse: Friðarey), sometimes Fairisle, is the southernmost Shetland island, situated roughly 38 kilometres (20+1⁄2...
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  • on Newsnight on BBC2. When the BBC chose to feature the midnight Shipping Forecast as part of an evening of programmes devoted to radio on BBC2 in 1993...
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  • during strike action by other staff. He is often dubbed "Voice of the Shipping Forecast". He has also read the quotations in the Radio 4 quiz game Quote,...
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  • individual's lifespan Long Forties, area in the North Sea The Forties shipping forecast area (roughly corresponding to the Long Forties) Forties oilfield...
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    Bay of Biscay (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    The Bay of Biscay (/ˈbɪskeɪ, -ki/ BISS-kay, -⁠kee) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western...
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    (Canada). Where the messages contain weather forecasts, an abbreviated format very similar to the shipping forecast is used. NAVTEX is a component of the International...
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    Dorset. The whole bay forms the northwest of Portland in the UK's shipping forecast. "Shoreline Management Plan Review (SMP2) : Durlston Head to Rame...
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  • Rocky’s eccentric, very precise housekeeper who is interested in the shipping forecast and Australian Rules Football. Lol Ferris (Tim Wylton) – Rocky’s amiable...
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  • point of Ireland A sea area, named for the rock, used in the British Shipping Forecast Fastnet Rock (horse), an Australian thoroughbred racehorse stallion...
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  • and West Sussex. The opening titles for each episode feature the shipping forecast read by Zeb Soanes. The first episode, Dead Simple, was shifted forward...
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    Long Forties (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    Norway, centred about 57°N 0°30′E; compare to the Broad Fourteens. The Shipping Forecast area Forties approximates to Long Forties, though with neater boundaries...
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  • turboprop engine developed in the 1950s Tyne, a sea area in the British Shipping Forecast Tyne-class lifeboats have been operated by the Royal National Lifeboat...
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    acceptable if the format and presentation is otherwise continuous. The Shipping Forecast starts with "Sailing By" and the following recitation of the sea zones...
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    Rockall (category Shipping Forecast areas)
    needed] Rockall gives its name to one of the sea areas named in the shipping forecast provided by the British Meteorological Office. Rockall has been a...
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  • Bruce Cameron and their adaptations Bailey, a sea area in the BBC Shipping Forecast Bailey Road, Patna, India Bailey Sweet (apple), also referred to as...
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