Shipping Forecast

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Have you heard this version?

I hadn't. Excellent!

 

[Piemaster]

I work in the North Sea and don't listen to it.
Weather forecasts arrive by email and are very specific to oilfield the boat is in, mainly windspeeds and wave heights.
No rhythmic incantation or romance there I'm afraid

 

[Enso108]

Where and when is it on??

 

[Auntie Helen]

I love it for the rhythmic language and the complete impenetrability to many.

My husband is a sailor and listens to it properly and understands it too!

I remember a while ago reading, for the first time, "Sea state: phenomenal" on the shipping forecast on the web. Also heard a hurricane on the radio forecast too.

 

[sunnyjim]

Ahhhhh...Charlotte Green...... <Drifts off to sleep in dreamy fantasy> zzzzzzzZZZZZZ

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Have you heard this version?

That's brilliant.
I miss the shipping forecast - I used to hear it every morning when I started work at 2 or 3 am. I used to like the Radio 4 Theme too.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

And I understand it, even if there is little reason for a Midlands lorry driver to.

 

[puddleglum]

Where and when is it on??

It's on radio 4 late at night, some time around midnight I think. Reliable, reassuring, etc. It must be likehow a really young kid feels when they are being read to, but they don't yet understand the words

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Also on at 5.30am and on R4 long wave around midday. The midnight broadcast is the only one that features "Sailing By" as the theme music (yes, I have read "Attention all Shipping").

 

[bonj2]

It's just that you don't understand it, Bonj.

no, because it doesn't make sense.

 

[bonj2]

And I understand it, even if there is little reason for a Midlands lorry driver to.

no you don't.

 

[bonj2]

it isn't even spoken in sentences. it's like a deranged poem almost.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

no you don't.

I do. We covered it in a meteorology module when I was doing my degree (how long ago that seems). It's actually pretty logical, and sums up wind speed and direction, precipitation and visibility in various sea areas. In a concise and easy to understand format.

 

[bonj2]

I do. We covered it in a meteorology module when I was doing my degree (how long ago that seems). It's actually pretty logical, and sums up wind speed and direction, precipitation and visibility in various sea areas. In a concise and easy to understand format.

Well it sounds like the most incomprehensible stream of absolute gibberish I've ever heard! I was once listening to radio 4 in the garage when it came on and my brain hurt it was such bollocks, I had to go and turn over to radio 2!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

It does, at first. But once you understand it, it makes a lot more sense.