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...

zones). Royal Navy weather forecasts are generally provided by naval officers, not Met Office personnel. The Shipping Forecast is produced by the Met Office...

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...

Shipping Forecast, part of the broadcast output of BBC Radio 4. If a considerable time will intervene before the next Shipping Forecast, forecasters may...

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...

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...

warning service for shipping was initiated in February 1861, with the use of telegraph communications. The first daily weather forecasts were published in...

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...

"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...

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)...

Cape Trafalgar (/trəˈfælɡər/; Spanish: Cabo Trafalgar [ˈkaβo tɾafalˈɣaɾ]) is a headland in the Province of Cádiz in the southwest of Spain. The 1805 naval...

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...

the Heligoland Bight. Between 1949 and 1956 the BBC Sea Area Forecast (Shipping Forecast) used "Heligoland" as the designation for the area now referred...

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...

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...

Fair Isle (/ˈfɛər aɪl/ FAIR eyel; Old Norse: Friðarey), sometimes Fairisle, is the southernmost Shetland island, situated roughly 38 kilometres (20+1⁄2...

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,...

individual's lifespan Long Forties, area in the North Sea The Forties shipping forecast area (roughly corresponding to the Long Forties) Forties oilfield...

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...

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...

(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...

Dorset. The whole bay forms the northwest of Portland in the UK's shipping forecast. "Shoreline Management Plan Review (SMP2) : Durlston Head to Rame...

Rocky’s eccentric, very precise housekeeper who is interested in the shipping forecast and Australian Rules Football. Lol Ferris (Tim Wylton) – Rocky’s amiable...

point of Ireland A sea area, named for the rock, used in the British Shipping Forecast Fastnet Rock (horse), an Australian thoroughbred racehorse stallion...

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...

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...

acceptable if the format and presentation is otherwise continuous. The Shipping Forecast starts with "Sailing By" and the following recitation of the sea zones...

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...

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...

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...