Issued by the Met Office at 0500 UTC on Monday 21 August.
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: northwest becoming variable 3.
Weather: occasional rain or showers
Visibility: moderate or good, occasionally poor at first
Sea State: slight, occasionally moderate in north
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming east or southeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later
Weather: rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight.
Rattray Head to Berwick on Tweed.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: variable 3
Weather: occasional rain or showers
Visibility: moderate or good, occasionally poor at first
Sea State: slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming southeast 3 or 4.
Weather: rain later
Visibility: moderate or good with fog patches for a time
Sea State: slight.
Berwick on Tweed to Whitby.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest becoming variable 3
Weather: showers.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming south or southeast 3 or 4
Weather: rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good with fog patches for a time
Sea State: slight.
Whitby to the Wash.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west veering north or northwest 3 or 4
Weather: showers.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: northwest becoming variable 3 then south or southwest 3 or 4
Weather: rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good with fog patches for a time in north
Sea State: slight.
The Wash to North Foreland.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or southwest 4 or 5 veering northwest 3 or 4
Weather: rain or showers.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: northwest becoming variable 3, then southwest 3 or 4
Weather: rain later
Visibility: moderate or good .
Sea State: slight.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6, veering northwest 3
Weather: rain or showers.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate becoming slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: northwest backing southwest 3, occasionally 4 later
Weather: rain later
Visibility: moderate or good, occasionally poor later.
Sea State: slight
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6, veering northwest 3
Weather: rain or showers
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate becoming slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: northwest 3 backing southwest 3 or 4.
Weather: fair then rain.
Visibility: moderate or good, becoming poor at times.
Sea State: slight.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or southwest 4 or 5 veering northwest 3 or 4 for a time
Weather: rain or showers dying out; further rain later
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate becoming slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: southwest 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later in west
Weather: occasional rain or drizzle
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches developing
Sea State: slight, becoming moderate later in west.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or northwest 4 or 5 backing south or southwest 3
Weather: rain or showers dying out; further rain later
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: moderate becoming slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 3 veering southwest 4 or 5
Weather: occasional rain or drizzle
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches
Sea State: slight, becoming moderate later in west
St Davids Head to Colwyn Bay, including St Georges Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: west or northwest 4 or 5 backing south or southwest 3
Weather: showers dying out; occasional rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: slight, but moderate at first in south.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: south 3 veering southwest 4 or 5.
Weather: occasional rain or drizzle.
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches.
Sea State: slight, becoming moderate later in south
Colwyn Bay to the Mull of Galloway.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest 3 or 4 becoming variable 3
Weather: showers dying out; occasional rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming south or southwest 4 or 5.
Weather: rain at times.
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches, becoming mainly good later
Sea State: slight
Isle of Man.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest 3 or 4 decreasing 2 or 3 backing south later.
Weather: isolated showers becoming fair.
Visibility: good.
Sea State: moderate becoming slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: southwest 2 or 3 increasing 3 or 4.
Weather: fair.
Visibility: good.
Sea State: slight or moderate.
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest 3 or 4 becoming variable 3
Weather: showers dying out; occasional rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: slight, but moderate at first in north
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming southeast 4 or 5, then veering southwest
Weather: rain at times
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches, becoming mainly good later
Sea State: slight, becoming moderate later in north
The Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and the
North Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest 3 or 4 becoming variable 3
Weather: showers dying out; occasional rain later.
Visibility: moderate or good
Sea State: slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming southeast 4 or 5, then veering southwest later
Weather: rain at times
Visibility: moderate or poor with fog patches, becoming mainly good later
Sea State: slight
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: northwest 3 or 4 becoming variable 3.
Weather: occasional rain or showers dying out.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight, but moderate at first in open water
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming southeast 4 or 5, veering southwest later in south
Weather: fair then rain
Visibility: good becoming moderate or poor for a time
Sea State: slight becoming moderate
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: variable 3
Weather: occasional rain or showers dying out.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: variable 3 becoming east or southeast 4 or 5
Weather: fair then rain.
Visibility: good becoming moderate or poor.
Sea State: slight, becoming moderate in open water
Shetland Isles.
24 hour forecast:
Wind: north or northeast 3
Weather: occasional rain or showers
Visibility: moderate or good, occasionally poor at first
Sea State: slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind: north or northeast veering east 3
Weather: fair.
Visibility: moderate or good.
Sea State: slight
Outlook for all UK Inshore Waters for following 3 days:
Light or moderate
westerly or southwesterly winds around England and Wales, moderate southeasterly
winds off northern and eastern Scotland, and fresh or strong cyclonic winds off
western Scotland and Northern Ireland; a ridge will then drift east across the
UK Thursday with winds falling generally light; fresh or strong winds over
central and southern waters Friday as a low tracks east across southern England.
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