{"id":9244,"date":"2014-04-12T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2014-04-12T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T13:23:45","slug":"the-radio-new-zealand-coastal-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-radio-new-zealand-coastal-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radio New Zealand coastal forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9245 aligncenter\" alt=\"(Source: stuff.co.nz)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map.jpg 410w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NZ-weather_map-100x92.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to my post on the <a title=\"And now, the Shipping Forecast\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/and-now-the-shipping-forecast\/\">BBC Shipping Forecast<\/a>, <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader Mark writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just read your <a title=\"And now, the Shipping Forecast\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/and-now-the-shipping-forecast\/\">latest blog about the BBC marine forecast<\/a>. It sounds very similar to the RNZ coastal forecast&#8230;..but they also have a mountain forecast!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"RNZ Weather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/coastal\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/coastal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Broadcast times<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Short:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> with hourly news bulletins<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Regional:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 5:30, 6:32am on weekdays, and 5:30am and 7:05am on weekends<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Main centre:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 5:05, 5:35, 6:08, 7:08, 8:08am on weekdays and 5:05, 5:35, 6:05, 7:05 and 8:08am on weekends<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Urban:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 7:32, 8:32am<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Long-range:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 12:32pm on weekdays and 1:04pm on weekends<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Coastal:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 4:05am<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;\">Mountain:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;\"> 4:05pm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks, Mike! I had no idea New Zealand had a coastal forecast similar to that of the UK. I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, though, as New Zealand is very much a maritime country and indeed, <a title=\"Aukland on WikiPedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Auckland\" target=\"_blank\">Aukland, NZ<\/a> has the highest boat ownership of any city in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my post on the BBC Shipping Forecast, SWLing Post reader Mark writes: I just read your latest blog about the BBC marine forecast. It sounds very similar to the RNZ coastal forecast&#8230;..but they also have a mountain forecast! http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/weather\/coastal Broadcast times Short: with hourly news bulletins Regional: 5:30, 6:32am on weekdays, and [&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":[8,3,554],"tags":[2736,2735,2737,2734,2710],"class_list":["post-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-slightly-off-topic","tag-new-zealand-coastal-forecast","tag-new-zealand-shipping-forecast","tag-rnz-coastal-forecast","tag-shipping-forecast","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2p6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33310,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-shipping-forecast-featured-on-99-invisible\/","url_meta":{"origin":9244,"position":0},"title":"The Shipping Forecast featured on 99% Invisible","author":"Thomas","date":"July 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that one of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible, has featured The Shipping Forecast in their latest episode: https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/99percentinvisible\/dovetail.prxu.org\/96\/474ddc6a-89d7-46d3-83a4-8f153c94e3a3\/316_The_Shipping_Forecast_pt01.mp3 Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Met-Office-Shipping-Forecast-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Met-Office-Shipping-Forecast-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Met-Office-Shipping-Forecast-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8333,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/and-now-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":9244,"position":1},"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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