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In 1911, the Met Office had begun issuing marine weather forecasts which included gale and storm warnings via radio transmission for areas around Great Britain. This service was discontinued during and following World War I , between 1914 and June 1921, and again during World War II between 1939 and 1945.
The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.
The North Atlantic Ocean east of 35°W, from 48°27'N to 75°N including the North Sea and Baltic Sea sub-area METAREA II: France: France: Atlantic waters east of 35°W, from 7°N to 48°27'N, and east of 20°W from 7°N to 6°S, including the Straits of Gibraltar: METAREA III: Greece (Hellas) France (western Mediterranean Sea)
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
The Portuguese weather institute put the entire coast of Portugal on red alert on account of expected high seas and gale-force winds. [172] Tini (Darwin) – 10–17 February 2014. 960 hPa (28 inHg). [173] The UK Met Office issued a rare red warning of wind for North Wales and north western England.
A report from the Met Office suggests that temperatures may have reached 40.3 °C (104.5 °F) at Coningsby on 19 July, which is the first time the United Kingdom has exceeded 40 °C (104 °F). [ 136 ] [ needs update ] Ireland also recorded its hottest day since 1887 with temperatures exceeding 33.1 °C (92 °F) in Dublin . [ 137 ]
The Met Office issued its first ever red extreme heat warning after there were forecasts of over 40 °C (104 °F) in some parts of England, and a national emergency was declared. [ 177 ] On 18 July, the first day of the red warning, temperatures reached 38.1 °C (100.6 °F) in Santon Downham , Suffolk.
The United Kingdom did not experience heatwaves as defined by the Met Office during the meteorological summer. [90] Nevertheless, the mean temperature in June was 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the warmest since records began in 1884, and 0.9 °C higher than the previous record, set in 1940 and 1976. [ 91 ]