List of coastal weather stations of the United Kingdom
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Reports from these additional coastal stations and automatic weather logging stations are included in the extended Shipping Forecast
s 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 in parenthesis refer to the map on the right. Weather reports included in the forecasts are issued at 2300 local time for the late broadcast and 0400 for the early one, although reports issued at other times may be included if for some reason the most recent did not arrive.
Visits to the 05:20 weather stations, and their links with Fitzroy and others
Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast is a four-times-daily BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecasts sent over the Navtex...
s on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
at 0048 and 0520 local time each day.
- TireeTiree-History:Tiree is known for the 1st century BC Dùn Mòr broch, for the prehistoric carved Ringing Stone and for the birds of the Ceann a' Mhara headland....
Automatic (1) - Stornoway (2)
- LerwickLerwickLerwick is the capital and main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, located more than 100 miles off the north coast of mainland Scotland on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland...
(3) - WickWick, HighlandWick is an estuary town and a royal burgh in the north of the Highland council area of Scotland. Historically, it is one of two burghs within the county of Caithness, of which Wick was the county town. The town straddles the River Wick and extends along both sides of Wick Bay...
Automatic (0048 only) - AberdeenAberdeenAberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
(0048 only) - LeucharsLeucharsLeuchars is a small town near the north-east coast of Fife in Scotland.The town is nearly to the north of the village of Guardbridge, which lies on the north bank of the River Eden where it widens to the Edenmouth estuary before joining the North Sea at St Andrews Bay. Leuchars is north-east of...
(4) - BoulmerBoulmerBoulmer is a village in Northumberland, in England. It is situated on the North Sea coast to the east of Alnwick.It is home to RAF Boulmer which is one of the main search and rescue helicopter bases in the northeast of England....
(0048 only) - BridlingtonBridlingtonBridlington is a seaside resort, minor sea fishing port and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has a static population of over 33,000, which rises considerably during the tourist season...
(5) - Sandettie Light Vessel AutomaticSandettie Light Vessel AutomaticSandettie Light Vessel Automatic is the name of a lightvessel in the English Channel. It is one of the 12 coastal weather stations whose conditions are automatically reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast....
(6) - Greenwich Light Vessel AutomaticGreenwich Light Vessel AutomaticGreenwich Light Vessel Automatic is the name of a lightvessel in the English Channel, off the coast of East Sussex. It is one of the 12 coastal weather stations whose conditions are automatically reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast. The name of the vessel derives from the fact that is located on...
(7) - St. Catherine's Point Automatic (0048 only)
- JerseyJerseyJersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
(8) - Channel Light Vessel AutomaticChannel Light Vessel AutomaticChannel Light Vessel Automatic is the name of a lightvessel in the English Channel. It is one of the 12 coastal weather stations whose conditions are automatically reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast. The vessel's position is .-External links:*...
(9) - ScillyIsles of ScillyThe Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part...
Automatic (10) - Milford HavenMilford HavenMilford Haven is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. The town was founded in 1790 on the north side of the Waterway, from which it takes its name...
(0048 only) - AberporthAberporthAberporth is a community and small town in Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales. The population was 2,485 in 2001.- Location :The town lies at the southern end of Cardigan Bay about six miles north of Cardigan and ten miles south of New Quay approximately one mile west of the A487, on the...
(0048 only) - ValleyValley, AngleseyValley is a village near Holyhead/Caergybi on the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales.In Welsh it is referred to as either Y Dyffryn or [Y] Fali . Recent research, prompted by local opposition to the name of Y Fali, suggested that Valley may be a corruption of the Irish Bally , or Baile as it is...
(0048 only) - Liverpool CrosbyCrosby, MerseysideCrosby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. Historically part of Lancashire it is situated north of Bootle, south of Southport, Formby and west of Netherton-History:...
(0048 only) - ValentiaValentia IslandValentia Island is one of Ireland's westernmost points, lying off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry, Ireland. It is linked to the mainland by the Maurice O'Neill Memorial bridge at Portmagee, as well as by a ferry which sails from Reenard Point to Knightstown, the island's...
(11, Republic of Ireland) - RonaldswayRonaldswayRonaldsway is a place in Malew in the south of the Isle of Man, between the village of Ballasalla and the town of Castletown. It is notable as the location of Isle of Man Airport and historically RNAS Ronaldsway, together with the adjoining customs free zone and industrial estate.Ronaldsway is the...
(12) - Malin HeadMalin HeadMalin Head , on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, is usually given as the most northerly headland of the mainland of Ireland . In fact, the most northerly point is actually a headland named Banba's Crown on the Inishowen Peninsula about 2 km to the northeast...
(13, Republic of Ireland) - MachrihanishMachrihanishMachrihanish is a village in Argyll, Scotland. Machrihanish has a classic links golf course described by many as the defining links course in Scotland.Campbeltown Airport, formerly RAF Machrihanish, is located near the village...
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