{"id":33637,"date":"2018-08-19T18:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33637"},"modified":"2018-08-19T18:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T22:12:59","slug":"an-exceptional-shipping-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/an-exceptional-shipping-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exceptional Shipping Forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33638\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33638\" class=\"wp-image-33638 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast-624x459.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Shipping-Forecast.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Corrie Corfield<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, I took note of the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corrie_corfield\/status\/1030765893897334784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0message and image (above) from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/profiles\/53wQB0zjldHNl4mkXWZmXcl\/corrie-corfield\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corrie Corfield<\/a>, who is a Newsreader\/Announcer for BBC Radio 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been reading the Ships on @BBCRadio4 for nearly 30 years &amp; this is the first time I\u2019ve had a TROPICAL storm. Becoming EXTRA tropical to boot ?#BraceYourselfForErnesto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been reading the Ships on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadio4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCRadio4<\/a> for nearly 30 years &amp; this is the first time I\u2019ve had a TROPICAL storm. Becoming EXTRA tropical to boot ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BraceYourselfForErnesto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BraceYourselfForErnesto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bbO7LPeEh9\">pic.twitter.com\/bbO7LPeEh9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Corrie Corfield (@corrie_corfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corrie_corfield\/status\/1030765893897334784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To listen to episodes of the shipping forecast via Radio 4 online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qfvv\/episodes\/player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Oddly, the one she notes seems to be missing!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I took note of the following\u00a0Twitter\u00a0message and image (above) from\u00a0Corrie Corfield, who is a Newsreader\/Announcer for BBC Radio 4: I\u2019ve been reading the Ships on @BBCRadio4 for nearly 30 years &amp; this is the first time I\u2019ve had a TROPICAL storm. Becoming EXTRA tropical to boot ?#BraceYourselfForErnesto I\u2019ve been reading the Ships on @BBCRadio4 [&hellip;]<\/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":[3],"tags":[7224,852,2734,2710],"class_list":["post-33637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-corrie-corfield","tag-radio-4","tag-shipping-forecast","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Kx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9808,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/today-choppy-seas-for-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":33637,"position":0},"title":"Today: Choppy seas for the Shipping Forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the dawn of time, there is, there was, and there always has been...the Shipping Forecast. 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