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And, of course, it's broadcast on the BBC's more high-brow station. And they do still listen to them, at least at night. Maybe it's odd to some that a good percentage of one of the greatest developed countries in the world still have radios and use them frequently, but most Brits are familiar with this quirky little meteorological forecast that they can't really understand. It is very much a British institution, with many people listening to the Shipping Forecast and being able to recite a lot of it. You may think this seems like the obscure kind of thing that only radio enthusiasts and the people who actually use the information would tune into. In 2023, the BBC announced plans to end separate longwave programming the next year the number of Shipping Forecasts that would be broadcast would decrease to two on weekdays and three on weekends note 00 all week, and 1754 on weekends as a result.

The Met Office first started broadcasting marine forecasts on radio in 1911, and has continued to do so (barring interruptions during the World Wars) on the BBC's longwave transmitters, meaning that in technical terms, the broadcasts moved from the BBC National Programme, to the Light Programme after the Second World War, which rebranded to BBC Radio 2, then moving again to BBC Radio 4 when it took over the longwave frequency. Receivable on LW radios in Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Biscay, Trafalgar, FitzRoy, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faeroes, and Southeast Iceland. Issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency. Read out loud with slowly and clearly, in short sentences with few words. 000 also include weather reports from coastal stations and the inshore waters weather forecast. Always on LW and at the odd moments also on FM at 0048, 0520, 12.

The Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency at 0048 on Thursday the 31st of October 2014.Ī forecast for people shipping things on boats.īroadcast on BBC Radio 4.