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General Situation at 0001 on Mon 12 May 2008
High pressure to the north of Scotland and low pressure over France will give mainly easterly winds across the United Kingdom, light or moderate for most areas.
From Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney
24 hour forecast:
East veering southeast 4 or 5, occasionally 6 in north later.
Slight or moderate, occasionally rough in northwest later.
Showers dying out later, fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
Southeast 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first.
Slight, occasionally moderate.
Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Rattray Head to Berwick on Tweed
24 hour forecast:
East or northeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in north later.
Slight or moderate.
Showers dying out, fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
East or northeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5.
Slight.
Occasional drizzle, fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Berwick on Tweed to Whitby
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less becoming east or northeast 3 or 4.
Mainly slight.
Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
East backing northeast 3 or 4.
Slight.
Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Whitby to Gibraltar Point
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less becoming north or northeast 3 or 4.
Slight.
Fog patches at first then fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor at first.
Outlook:
East or northeast 3 or 4.
Slight.
Fog patches in north at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Gibraltar Point to North Foreland
24 hour forecast:
Northeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5 in south later.
Slight, increasing moderate in south.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 4 or 5, perhaps 6 at times in south later.
Slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill
24 hour forecast:
Northeasterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Slight, occasionally moderate in east later.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 4 or 5, perhaps 6 at times later.
Slight, occasionally moderate in east.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less becoming northeasterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later, with daytime sea breezes.
Mainly slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5, with daytime sea breezes.
Slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly
24 hour forecast:
Variable becoming easterly 3 or 4, with daytime sea breezes.
Smooth or slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 3 or 4, with daytime sea breezes.
Slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel
24 hour forecast:
Variable becoming mainly easterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Slight.
Fog patches, mainly in west.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
Northeasterly 3 or 4, with daytime sea breezes.
Slight.
Fog patches at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
St Davids Head to Great Ormes Head, including St Georges Channel
24 hour forecast:
Variable becoming easterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Smooth or slight.
Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
Variable becoming northeast 3 or 4.
Slight.
Fog patches at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Great Ormes Head to the Mull of Galloway
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less, becoming east or northeast 4 or 5.
Mainly slight.
Showers dying out, fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
Easterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Smooth or slight.
Fog patches at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Isle of Man
24 hour forecast:
Variable 2 or 3 becoming east or northeast 3 or 4, increasing 4 or 5 later.
Slight, occasionally moderate later.
Fair, perhaps with haze.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
East or northeast 3 or 4, increasing 4 or 5 later.
Slight becoming slight to moderate.
Fair.
Moderate or good.
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough
24 hour forecast:
Variable becoming easterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Slight, occasionally moderate later.
Showers dying out, fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
East or southeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5.
Slight, occasionally moderate.
Fog patches at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
The Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and the North Channel
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or 4 becoming east or northeast 4 or 5.
Smooth or slight, occasionally moderate in west later.
Showers dying out, fog patches at first.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
East or southeast 4 or 5.
Slight to moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point
24 hour forecast:
Variable 3 or less becoming easterly 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Smooth or slight, occasionally moderate in southwest later.
Showers dying out later.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
East 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Slight.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath including the Outer Hebrides
24 hour forecast:
Easterly or northeasterly 3 or 4, increasing 5 occasionally 6 in far north later.
Slight, occasionally moderate in far north.
Showers, dying out later.
Moderate or good.
Outlook:
Easterly 3 or 4, but 5 occasionally 6 in north at first.
Slight to moderate.
Mainly fair.
Moderate or good.
Shetland Isles
24 hour forecast:
East or northeast 3 or 4, occasionally 5 later.
Slight or moderate.
Fog patches at first then fair.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
Outlook:
East or southeast 4 or 5.
Slight.
Fog patches.
Moderate or good, occasionally very poor.
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