What is shipping time forecast?

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.

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 frequency is the shipping forecast?

From Monday 13 July the Shipping Forecast will return entirely to the normal broadcast schedule, and will be broadcast at 0048 on FM and LW, 0520 on FM and LW, midday on LW and 1754 on LW, also broadcast on FM at weekends.

How many times a day is the shipping forecast broadcast on BBC radio?

What is the Shipping Forecast? The Shipping Forecast is broadcast on longwave Radio 4 at four precise times a day: 0048, 0520, 1201 and 1754.

What does cyclonic mean in shipping forecast?

WIND. Direction = The direction from which the wind is blowing. Becoming Cyclonic = Indicates a significant change in wind direction across the path of a depression. Veering = Wind direction moving clockwise.

What times are the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast?

BBC Radio 4 broadcasts weather bulletins daily on FM and long wave. Weather bulletins for shipping are broadcast daily on BBC Radio 4 at the following times: 0048 and 0520 (long wave and FM) 1201 and 1754 (normally long wave only)

Where is the forties shipping area?

North Sea
Forties – an area in the North Sea named after a sandbank and also an area called the “Long Forties” which is fairly consistently 40 fathoms deep (73m). The area is the home to much of the North Sea’s oil and gas fields and it is approximately 100 miles from Aberdeen.

How many times a day is the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC radio?

Where is Forties shipping area?

Forties – an area in the North Sea named after a sandbank and also an area called the “Long Forties” which is fairly consistently 40 fathoms deep (73m). The area is the home to much of the North Sea’s oil and gas fields and it is approximately 100 miles from Aberdeen.

What is a phenomenal sea?

A Phenomenal sea is classified as having a significant wave height of 14.0m or more and this was recorded at both M6 and M3 buoys. The depression responsible for these waves was an Ex-Hurricane named EPSILON, which originally developed off Bermuda before being ‘consumed’ into the Jetstream.

What is a backing wind?

Backing Winds Winds which shift in a counterclockwise direction with time at a given location (e.g. from southerly to southeasterly), or change direction in a counterclockwise sense with height (e.g. westerly at the surface but becoming more southerly aloft). The opposite of veering winds.