People regard it as poetry.” Connolly grew up listening to the forecast. The Shipping Forecast is “part of the culture here,” muses Charlie Connolly, author of Attention All Shipping: A Journey ‘Round the Shipping Forecast. “It’s a much loved institution.

“Viking, North Utsire southwesterly five to seven occasionally gale eight rain or showers moderate or good, occasionally poor.” Cryptic and mesmerizing, this is the UK’s nautical weather report. “And now the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency,” says the voice over the wire. SaneBox (Visit the link and get a $25 credit applied to your account on top of the 14-day free trial).Four times every day, on radios all across the United Kingdom, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script.

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