![]() ![]() HMS Beagle in the Straits of MagellanįitzRoy had a long, sometimes controversial career, but later in his life he became fascinated with the study of weather prediction.īarometric Prophecies An Admiral Fitzroy’s Storm Stick Barometer, signed Negretti & Zambra, Instrument Makers to Her Majesty, via Tennants He was the captain of the Beagle, the ship that brought Charles Darwin to the Galapagos. The story of this radio program starts (well before the BBC itself) in the 1850s with a man named Admiral Robert FitzRoy. Even now, as an adult, he sets his alarm so he can tune into the early morning forecast. People regard it as poetry.” Connolly grew up listening to the forecast. The Shipping Forecast is “part of the culture here,” muses Charlie Connolly, author of Attention All Shipping: A Journey ‘Round the Shipping Forecast. “It’s a much loved institution. “Viking, North Utsire southwesterly five to seven occasionally gale eight rain or showers moderate or good, occasionally poor.” Cryptic and mesmerizing, this is the UK’s nautical weather report. “And now the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency,” says the voice over the wire. Four times every day, on radios all across the United Kingdom, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script.
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