{"id":24142,"date":"2017-02-16T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2017-02-16T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:51:28","slug":"video-history-of-the-shipping-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/video-history-of-the-shipping-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: History of the Shipping Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8952\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations-100x56.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, George, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/shipping-forecast\">recent postings about the Shipping Forecast<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d share this excellent little video\u00a0produced by the Met Office:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ts7nGURT3Pw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ts7nGURT3Pw\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you, George!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, George, who writes: With all of the recent postings about the Shipping Forecast, I thought I&#8217;d share this excellent little video\u00a0produced by the Met Office: Click here to view on YouTube. Thank you, George!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2436,433,3,305,288],"tags":[4123,4099,4292,2734],"class_list":["post-24142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-longwave","tag-mediumwave","tag-met-office","tag-shipping-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6ho","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14959,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-demise-of-longwave-could-lead-to-the-end-of-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":24142,"position":0},"title":"The demise of longwave could lead to the end of the Shipping Forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"September 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Erica, who writes: \"I saw this article about the demise of the Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 Longwave and thought readers might be interested: http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/11892805\/End-of-Shipping-Forecast-on-long-wave-radio-could-leave-sailors-high-and-dry.html I'm not a fan of DAB radio and my bedroom radio aerial has to be positioned just so to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Longwave&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Longwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/longwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"shipping-forecast-locations","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24144,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/kris-also-forced-the-shipping-forecast-to-repeat-a-broadcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":24142,"position":1},"title":"Kris also forced the Shipping Forecast to repeat a broadcast","author":"Thomas","date":"February 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Kris Partridge (G8AUU) who shares the following comment in reply to our post about Dave's experience forcing the Shipping Forecast to repeat a broadcast: Hi Dave, G4OYX, et al Not the only time the Shipping Forecast has had to be repeated for \u2018Operational Error\u2019\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Shipping-Forecast-Beaufort-Scale-1024x573.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Shipping-Forecast-Beaufort-Scale-1024x573.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Shipping-Forecast-Beaufort-Scale-1024x573.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8333,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/and-now-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":24142,"position":2},"title":"And now, the Shipping Forecast&#8230;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"When I lived in the UK, I would often fall asleep and\/or wake up to the Shipping Forecast:\u00a0a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. 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Dave writes: I worked at the Droitwich Transmitting Station through 1972-1974, the home of the BBC UK Long Wave 1500 m\/200 kHz service as it was then. 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