The Shipping Forecast
The warm wet westerly winds
Bailey.
Dogger.
Wight.
German bight.
Southwest severe gale 9.
Rain, then squally showers.
Poor.
Pinstriped puffins shut the door.
Lundy.
Bailey.
Irish sea.
Cromarty.
Variable 2-4, becoming westerly 5-7 later.
Wintry showers.
Poor.
Gingham sharks patrol the shore.
Faeroes.
Fair Isle.
Forth and Tyne.
Northwesterly 3-5, becoming variable 2-4, then cyclonic, mainly southwesterly 5-7 later.
Rain and wintry showers.
Poor.
Denim cormorants know the score.
Forties.
Fisher.
Fastnet.
Sole.
Westerly 4-6, increasing 6 to gale 8.
Rain.
Poor.
Hark the tartan sea eagles roar.
North Utsire.
South Utsire.
Viking.
Thames.
West or South west 5 increasing to gale 8 at times.
Occasional rain in Thames.
Poor.
Shhh… the satin herring snore.
Humber.
Hebrides.
Southeast Iceland.
Northerly 7 to Violent storm 11.
Rain.
Good, becoming very poor.
Beware, the woolen seahorses of Thor.
Fastnet.
Fitzroy.
Biscay.
Rockall.
Southwest 3 or 4.
Occasional rain.
Moderate or poor.
From afar the tweed godwits soar.
Dover.
Humber.
Trafalgar.
Malin.
Northwesterly Variable 2-4, becoming cyclonic 6 to gale 8 perhaps storm 10 later in Dover.
Wintry showers.
Poor.
Pas op! The Flemish fleece megalosaur.
Portland.
Plymouth.
Shannon.
Biscay.
Southwest 1, occasionally 2.
Good.
Towelling Redshanks in the hood.
