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Viking North Utsire South Utsire Forties Cromarty Forth Tyne Dogger Fisher German Bight Humber Thames Dover Wight Portland Plymouth Biscay FitzRoy Trafalgar Sole Lundy Fastnet Irish Sea Shannon Rockall Malin Hebrides Bailey Fair Isle Faeroes South-east Iceland Show all regions and types

Updated: 0956 on Wed 20 Aug 2008

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The general synopsis at 0700

Low southern Norway 995 expected Sweden 1000 by 0700 tomorrow. Low Hebrides 1001 expected eastern Scotland 1007 by same time. Low 300 miles west of Ireland 1002 moving slowly east and losing its identity by that time

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Updated: 1109 on Wed 20 Dec 2006
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The shipping forecast issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, on Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 1130

There are no warnings of gales currently in force


The General synopsis at 0700
Low southern Norway 995 expected Sweden 1000 by 0700 tomorrow. Low Hebrides 1001 expected eastern Scotland 1007 by same time. Low 300 miles west of Ireland 1002 moving slowly east and losing its identity by that time

The area forecasts for the next 24 hours

Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire
Northerly or northwesterly 5 or 6. Moderate or rough. Showers. Moderate or good

Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne
Variable 4, but northerly or northwesterly 4 or 5 in Forties at first. Slight or moderate. Rain or showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor

Dogger
West or southwest 5 or 6 decreasing 4. Slight or moderate. Rain or showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor

Fisher
Westerly or northwesterly 5 or 6, decreasing 4 in south and west later. Moderate or rough, decreasing slight in west. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

German Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover
Southwesterly 5 or 6, occasionally 7 at first. Moderate or rough, becoming slight or moderate. Squally showers. Moderate or good

Wight, Portland, Plymouth, North Biscay
Westerly or southwesterly 5 or 6, decreasing 4 or 5 later. Moderate or rough. Squally showers. Moderate or good

South Biscay
Variable mainly westerly or southwesterly 3 or 4. Moderate. Mainly fair. Moderate or good

FitzRoy
Variable 4 in southeast, otherwise southwesterly 5 or 6 veering northwesterly 4 or 5. Moderate or rough. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Trafalgar (Issued 0015 Wed 20 Aug)
Mainly northerly 4 or 5, occasionally 6. Moderate or rough. Showers. Good

Sole
Westerly or southwesterly 5 or 6 decreasing 4, veering northerly later. Moderate or rough. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
Westerly or southwesterly 5 or 6 decreasing 4 or 5. Moderate or rough. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Shannon
Cyclonic 4 in north at first, otherwise westerly veering northerly, 4 or 5. Moderate or rough. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Rockall, Malin
Northerly 4 or 5, but southwesterly in south at first, and increasing 6 at times later. Slight or moderate. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Hebrides, Bailey
Variable 4 in west Bailey, otherwise northerly or northeasterly 4 or 5. Slight or moderate. Rain or showers. Moderate or good

Fair Isle, Faeroes
Mainly northerly or northeasterly 4 or 5. Slight or moderate. Mainly fair. Moderate or good

South-east Iceland
Variable 4, but northeasterly 4 or 5 in northwest at first. Slight or moderate. Occasional rain. Moderate or good, occasionally poor

Sea area gale warnings, issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Last updated on Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 0956.

There are no gale warnings currently in force