Forecast to 12 miles offshore from 0500 UTC to 0500 UTC.
Issued by the Met Office at 0500 UTC on Tuesday 05 September 2006.
From Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast 3 backing east 5 or 6 becoming cyclonic later.
Weather:
rain developing.
Visibility:
good becoming moderate or poor.
Sea State:
slight or moderate building rough in east.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
cyclonic 5 or 6 becoming northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
moderate or rough.
Rattray Head to Berwick on Tweed.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast 3 or 4 increasing 5, perhaps 6 for a time, veering southwest 4
or 5 later.
Weather:
rain at times.
Visibility:
moderate or poor occasionally good at first in north.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Berwick on Tweed to Whitby.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast 3 increasing 4 or 5 then veering southwest.
Weather:
rain or drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain or drizzle clearing.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Whitby to the Wash.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast 3 or 4 veering southwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain or drizzle.
Visibility:
mainly moderate.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain or drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
The Wash to North Foreland.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor.
Sea State:
mainly slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest 4 or 5 decreasing 3, veering northwest 4 or 5 later.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight, locally moderate later in north.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
mainly southwest 3 or 4.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks.
Sea State:
slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest 3 or 4 veering north 4 or 5 later.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks becoming good later.
Sea State:
slight.
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
mainly southwest 3 or 4.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks.
Sea State:
slight.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest 3 or 4 veering north 4 or 5 later.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks becoming good later.
Sea State:
slight.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
mainly southwest 3 or 4.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks.
Sea State:
slight, locally moderate in west at first.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest 3 or 4 veering north 4 or 5.
Weather:
occasional drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog banks occasionally good later.
Sea State:
slight, building moderate in west.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southwesterly 3 or 4 occasionally 5 in west.
Weather:
rain or drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest veering north 3 or 4 occasionally 5 in west.
Weather:
rain or drizzle then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
St Davids Head to Colwyn Bay, including St Georges Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6.
Weather:
rain or drizzle.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches.
Sea State:
moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest 5 or 6 veering north 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain or drizzle then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Colwyn Bay to the Mull of Galloway.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southwest 5 or 6 occasionally 4 in east.
Weather:
occasional rain.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches.
Sea State:
slight or moderate, perhaps rough for a time in west.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
southwest veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Isle of Man.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast 3 or 4 in north at first otherwise south or southwest 5 or 6
veering west or northwest 4 or 5 later.
Weather:
occasional rain.
Visibility:
moderate or poor with fog patches.
Sea State:
moderate or rough.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
west or northwest 4 or 5 veering north or northeast.
Weather:
rain in east at first otherwise isolated showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor in rain at first becoming mainly good.
Sea State:
mainly moderate.
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast veering southwest 4 or 5, perhaps 6 for a time, veering west 3
or 4 later.
Weather:
rain.
Visibility:
moderate or poor.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
west 3 or 4 veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
The Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and the
North Channel.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast veering southwest 4 or 5, perhaps 6 for a time, veering west 3
or 4 later.
Weather:
rain.
Visibility:
moderate or poor.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
west 3 or 4 veering northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or poor becoming good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast veering southwest 5 or 6 veering west 3 or 4 later.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
west veering north 3 or 4 occasionally 5.
Weather:
showers.
Visibility:
good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
southeast backing east 4 or 5 perhaps 6 for a time, becoming cyclonic then
northwest 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain at times then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
north or northwest 4 or 5 occasionally 3 later.
Weather:
showers.
Visibility:
good.
Sea State:
slight or moderate.
Shetland Isles.
24 hour forecast:
Wind:
northwest 3 or 4 veering east 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain later.
Visibility:
good occasionally moderate later.
Sea State:
mainly moderate.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
Wind:
east backing north 4 or 5.
Weather:
rain then showers.
Visibility:
moderate or good.
Sea State:
moderate.
Outlook for all UK Inshore Waters for following 3 days:
moderate or fresh north
or northwest winds falling light and variable across many northern areas with a
fresh or strong east wind developing over southern areas during Thursday. A
moderate or fresh east or southeast wind will develop across most waters Friday
with strong winds persisting between North Foreland and St David's Head.
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