Issued by the Met Office at 0500 UTC on Thursday 09 December.
Inshore Waters Forecast to 12 miles offshore from 0500 UTC to 0500 UTC.
From Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 4 or 5, increasing 5 to 7 across the more exposed waters.
Weather: occasional rain in northwest.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: rough in north; slight becoming rough in east
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 5 to 7 veering west or southwest 3 or 4.
Weather: rain largely dying out.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: rough becoming moderate
Rattray Head to Berwick on Tweed.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 4 or 5, increasing 6 or 7 in north
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight to moderate becoming moderate to rough.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south or southwest 4 or 5, but 6 or 7 at first in north, veering west or
southwest 3
Weather: fair then occasional rain.
Visibility: good becoming moderate.
Sea State: moderate to rough becoming slight to moderate
Berwick on Tweed to Whitby.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 3 or 4 increasing 5 or 6 for a time.
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: slight becoming moderate for a time
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south or southwest 3 or 4 decreasing 2 or 3 later
Weather: fair then patchy rain in north, risk coastal mist developing
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist
Sea State: slight.
Whitby to the Wash.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south or southeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in north, decreasing 2 or 3
later.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south veering southwest 2 or 3 increasing 3 or 4 for a time.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
The Wash to North Foreland.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: east or southeast 3, occasionally 4 in north, veering south 2 or 3 later.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south veering west or southwest 2 or 3.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: east or northeast 3 or 4, veering south 2 or 3 later.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south or southwest becoming variable 2 or 3.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: east 3 or 4 becoming variable 2 or 3 later.
Weather: fair
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 2 or 3, mainly south or southwest at first and southeast later.
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: southeast 3 or 4, veering south 2 or 3 later, occasionally 4 in west.
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate at first in west otherwise slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south backing southeast 2 or 3, occasionally 4 in west
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: southeast 4 or 5 veering south 3 or 4 later, but mainly force 2 or 3 in
sheltered waters of Bristol Channel.
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate at first in open water otherwise slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 3 or 4 but 2 in sheltered waters of Bristol Channel
Weather: fair but risk coastal mist.
Visibility: moderate or good but poor in any mist.
Sea State: slight.
St Davids Head to Colwyn Bay, including St Georges Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south or southeast 4 or 5, perhaps occasionally 6 between Bardsey Island
and Holy Island
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight or moderate, becoming moderate to rough for a time Bardsey
Island to Holy Island
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 3 or 4, occasionally 5 at first.
Weather: patchy rain for a time.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: slight or moderate
Colwyn Bay to the Mull of Galloway including the Isle of Man.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south or southeast 4 or 5, perhaps occasionally 6 around Mull of Galloway
Weather: patchy rain or drizzle in north
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: slight in south; moderate in north
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 3 or 4, occasionally 5 around Mull of Galloway, perhaps veering
north 3 later in far north
Weather: occasional rain.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: slight but moderate for a time in north
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 5 to 7 decreasing 4 or 5 in southeast
Weather: patchy rain or drizzle.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: moderate or rough but slight in sheltered lough waters
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 4 or 5 but 6 at first in north, veering north or northwest 2 or 3
later
Weather: occasional rain.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: slight or moderate in east; moderate or rough in north
The Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and the
North Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 5 to 7 decreasing 4 or 5 later, but mainly 3 or 4 in sheltered
waters of Firth of Clyde
Weather: patchy rain or drizzle.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: moderate or rough in open water; slight in shelter
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first, veering north or northwest 2 or 3.
Weather: occasional rain.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: slight or moderate.
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 6 or 7, perhaps occasionally gale 8 in far north
Weather: occasional rain
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: rough.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 5 to 7 veering west 3 or 4, backing southeast 2 or 3 later
Weather: rain.
Visibility: moderate or poor.
Sea State: rough becoming moderate later.
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 6 to gale 8, decreasing 5 to 7 later
Weather: rain.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: rough but very rough in open water to west.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 5 to 7 veering west or southwest 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in north
Weather: rain dying out.
Visibility: moderate, occasionally poor at first
Sea State: rough but very rough at first in west.
Shetland Isles.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: south 6 or 7.
Weather: occasional rain.
Visibility: moderate.
Sea State: rough.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 6 or 7 veering west 4 or 5
Weather: rain then scattered showers.
Visibility: moderate becoming mainly good.
Sea State: rough.
Outlook for all UK Inshore Waters for following 3 days:
A spell of strong
southwest winds expected for a time Saturday around Shetland, otherwise light or
moderate breezes; strong southerly winds developing off western Scotland by late
Sunday, extending to Northern Ireland and east across Scotland during Monday,
increasing gale force at times off western Scotland; winds remaining light or
moderate south or southeast around England and Wales.
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