Guide to marine forecasts

The Met Office provides a wide range of marine forecasts and warnings.

This guide will help you to understand the forecasts and warnings we provide.

There are four sets of forecasts and warnings:

• Shipping forecast key
• Inshore waters forecast key
• High seas forecast key
• Extended outlook key

How to view the forecasts

The example below shows the shipping forecasts and gale warnings page but the information applies to all four marine forecast pages.

1. A clickable map is used to display the warnings. Areas of the map are coloured red when a warning is in force. Selecting an area on the map will display the forecast for that area in the table to the right of the map.

2. You can choose to select any individual area for display. Areas and type of forecast can be selected using the drop down boxes.

3. The details of the forecast or warning for your selected area will appear here.

4. Toggle between the type of forecasts you wish to display by using these buttons.

5. There is a printable view which contains the forecast for all areas.