General Situation at 0600 on Thu 08 Jan 2009
Ridge of high pressure remains slow moving over England and Wales. Weak frontal troughs will affect northern Scotland at times.
From Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney - Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
Southwesterly 5 or 6, occasionally 7 in north.
Slight or moderate in south, rough in north.
Occasional rain in north.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southwesterly 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 in northwest.
Slight or moderate in south, rough or very rough in north.
Fair, then rain in northwest later.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor in northwest later.
Rattray Head to Berwick on Tweed - Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
Southwest 5 or 6, decreasing 4 at times.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southwest 4 or 5 increasing 5 to 7.
Slight or moderate, occasionally rough in north later.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Berwick on Tweed to Whitby
24 hour forecast:
West or southwest 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in north.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
West or southwest 3 or 4, increasing 5 at times.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Whitby to Gibraltar Point
24 hour forecast:
Southwest 3 or 4.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southwest 3 or 4 increasing 4 or 5.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Gibraltar Point to North Foreland
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 becoming southerly 3 or 4.
Mainly slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southerly 3 or 4.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill
24 hour forecast:
North or northeast 3 veering east or southeast 3 or 4.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
East or southeast 3 or 4, becoming variable 3 or less.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis
24 hour forecast:
Northeasterly 3, occasionally 4 later.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 3 or 4 becoming variable 3 or less.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 becoming east or northeast 4 or 5.
Smooth or slight increasing slight or moderate.
Fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
East or northeast veering south or southeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5.
Slight, but moderate in west.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less becoming east or southeast 3 or 4.
Smooth or slight, increasing moderate in west later.
Fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
East or southeast 3 or 4 veering south or southeast 4 or 5.
Slight, but mainly moderate in west.
Fair.
Moderate or good.
St Davids Head to Great Ormes Head, including St Georges Channel
24 hour forecast:
Variable or southerly 3 or 4.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Variable 3 or 4, becoming southerly 5 or 6 later.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Great Ormes Head to the Mull of Galloway
24 hour forecast:
Variable or southwesterly 3 or 4.
Smooth or slight.
Occasional drizzle.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Outlook:
Variable 3 or 4 becoming southeasterly 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later.
Slight, occasionally moderate later.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Isle of Man
24 hour forecast:
Southwest 3 or 4.
Slight.
Occasional drizzle and mist.
Moderate, occasionally poor, becoming mainly good.
Outlook:
Southwest 3 or 4, increasing 4 or 5 later.
Slight becoming moderate.
Mainly fair.
Good.
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough
24 hour forecast:
South or southwest 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in north later.
Smooth or slight, but moderate in north.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southerly 4 or 5 increasing 5 to 7.
Slight or moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
The Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel
24 hour forecast:
South or southwest 3 or 4 increasing 4 or 5.
Slight, occasionally moderate in north.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Southerly 4 or 5 increasing 5 to 7.
Slight or moderate increasing moderate or rough.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point - Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
South or southwest 4 or 5 increasing 5 or 6.
Moderate, increasing rough in north.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
South 5 or 6 increasing 6 to gale 8.
Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough later.
Rain in north later.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor in north later.
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides - Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
Southerly or southwesterly, 4 or 5 in far southeast at first, otherwise 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 in northwest later.
Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough in northwest later.
Occasional drizzle.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Outlook:
Southerly 6 to gale 8, occasionally severe gale 9 in north and west.
Rough or very rough.
Occasional rain.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Shetland Isles - Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
Southwest 5 to 7, increasing gale 8 for a time.
Moderate or rough, occasionally very rough later in west.
Occasional rain.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Outlook:
Southwest 5 or 6 increasing 6 to gale 8.
Moderate or rough, but very rough in west.
Occasional rain.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
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