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The BBC's Shipping Forecast page containing the latest forecast when it is released (i.e. 0015, 0505, 1130 and 1725). The Meteorological Office's Shipping Forecast page Archived 11 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine contains the same forecast as the BBC site. The BBC's forecast for inshore waters. Rules on the format of the UK Shipping Forecast
Get the Shetland Islands, Scotland local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
For much of its broadcast day, BBC Radio Shetland rebroadcasts the output of BBC Radio Scotland.It opts out of this network for three regular slots: Good Evening Shetland, a 30-minute local news and magazine programme which includes current affairs, weather, fishing reports and public debate, broadcast Mon-Fri;
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps , brought into practice in 1949 after World War II .
She regularly presents the weather for BBC's Reporting Scotland and An Là. MacDonald won the prestigious women's gold medal at the Royal National Mòd in 2006. [2] In 2008, she had an operation to remove her appendix, shortly after her operation she entered the Mòd in Falkirk, where she won the women's traditional medal. [3]
The stations are listed in the order they are read in the forecast, the numbers in brackets refer to the map on the right. Weather reports included in the forecasts are issued at 2300 local time for the late broadcast and 0400 for the early one, although reports issued at other times may be included if for some reason, the most recent weather ...
Scotland occupies the cooler northern section of Great Britain, so temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the British Isles, with the coldest ever UK temperature of −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra, Highland, on 30 December 1995.
McGrane joined the Met Office in 1999, with Bill Giles as her mentor. [1] Following her training at the Met Office College in Reading as a forecaster, [7] she moved to the BBC Television Centre as a broadcast assistant, then moved to BBC Scotland as a weather forecaster at the end of 2000.