So every day I listen to the Shipping Forecast, at least twice, sometimes four times, waiting for the break to come. Stories abound of yachts getting into trouble here. For three days, the nearest coast will be at least half a day’s sail away. It’s a critical moment in our 1,000-mile (1,600km) journey as, once we leave Camariñas, we will abandon the shelter of land and be at the mercy of the Bay of Biscay. We take shelter in a small harbour just north of Cape Finisterre. Good.” That’s too much weather for this old girl. Preparing to head north into Finisterre (now FitzRoy), we hear a disembodied voice on the radio say: “Finisterre: Northwesterly 6 or 7, occasionally gale 8 later.
Chastened, we listen to the Shipping Forecast with renewed zeal.
Before setting off, some friends and I spent a week patching the boat up, but despite our best efforts we weren’t able to cure a persistent leak in the garboards and, after bashing through a gale in the Trafalgar sea area, the mast has developed an ominous crack. I am stormbound on an old wooden sloop that I bought in southern Portugal and am sailing back to the UK. Shipping Forecast weather system excercise notes and worksheet. Web page reproduced with the kind permission of the Met Office Latest inshore waters forecast Beaufort scale The broadcast on Radio 4 also includes the latest available reports of wind direction and force, visibility, sea-level pressure and tendency for approximately 20 stations around the UK. It includes a general synopsis, the forecast of wind direction and force, visibility and weather.
The forecast covers the area up to 12 miles offshore and is for the period up to 1800 the next day. This can be heard on BBC Radio 4 at the end of programmes (approximately 0048), and on BBC Radio 3 at 0535. In addition, some bulletins include a forecast for all UK inshore waters, as distinct from the coastal waters. Latest shipping forecast/gale warning Forecasts for inshore waters If this does not coincide with a news bulletin, the warning will be repeated after the next news bulletin.Ī glossary of terms used in the shipping bulletin In addition, gale warnings are broadcast at the first available programme break after receipt. The bulletins consist of a gale warning summary, general synopsis, sea-area forecasts and coastal station reports. Weather bulletins for shipping are broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4 at the following times: 00 (long wave and FM), 12 (normally long wave only). This is a brief guide to the main terms used in the shipping forecasts that are broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and also as a reference to the main shipping areas (known as the coastal waters) surrounding the British Isles.
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