Other Forecast Data For The British Isles

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Warnings, Flash Warnings of Severe Weather, Avalanche Warnings, Marine Gale Warnings, Forecasts (short-period), Annotated Forecast Charts & Satellite Imagery, Medium-Range Forecasts & Monthly Prospects, Forecasts (medium-range), Forecast (30-day outlook), Shipping Forecasts, Miscellaneous Forecasts, Air Quality Forecast, Aurora Forecast, UV Radiation Forecast, Coded Forecasts (TAFs, etc.)

SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS
Note: Severe thunderstorm & tornado watches and warnings are issued for the U.K. on a non-24 hour basis by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO), but for TORRO's use only

Avalanche Warnings
Scottish Avalanche Forecast (from the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, UK)

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Severe Weather (Flash) Warnings from the Met. Office, UK
National Summary of Flash Warnings of Severe Weather
If a warning(s) is indicated then either click on appropriate region in box headed Regions or click on the appropriate region below

Details of warnings in force for individual regions in the UK:
Northern Ireland, Northern Scotland, Southern Scotland, Northern England, North-West England, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, Wales, The Midlands, Eastern Counties, The West Country, Central Southern England, South-East England, Devon & Cornwall

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Marine Gale Warnings
Gale Warnings for coastal waters of Ireland (via RTE, Ireland)
Latest Gale Warning from the Met. Office, UK
Click here for a map of the sea areas for which the UK Met. Office has responsibility.

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FORECASTS (SHORT-PERIOD)

24-hour National Forecasts for the United Kingdom and Ireland
National forecast for the UK for next couple of days plus an outlook (from the Met. Office, UK)
UK: National and Regional forecasts (from the Press Association, via PA Data Design, UK)
National forecast for Ireland (via RTE, Ireland)

24-hour Regional Forecasts for the UK, from the Met. Office (UK)
Northern Ireland, Northern Scotland, Southern Scotland, Northern England, North-West England, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, Wales, The Midlands, Eastern Counties, The West Country, Central Southern England, South-East England, Devon & Cornwall

County & Local Forecasts
Jersey (from Jersey Airport Meteorological Department)
Stoke-on-Trent

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Annotated Forecast Charts & Satellite Imagery
A comprehensive listing of links to forecast charts and model forecast output is available on the Models page;
A comprehensive listing of links to Satellite Imagery is available on the Recent & Current Observational Data For The British Isles page

Satellite Image with Superimposed Fronts, both for 0000 UTC - also links to surface pressure charts and other satellite imagery (from the Met Office, UK)
Three-Day Animation (showing the midnight analysis and the 24 & 48-hour forecast charts - updated daily at about 0700).
Latest Infra-Red Image of North-Western Europe
The above site has links to a 24-hour sequence of IR images updated every six hours, an image in visible light for midday and a full earth view image
European Fronts & Precipitation Type (from Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN), USA)
European Surface Pressure, Fronts, Maximum Temperatures & Weather at 12Z (from DWD, Germany, via Stern Wetter, Germany)

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MEDIUM-RANGE FORECASTS (3-10 days) AND MONTHLY PROSPECTS

Medium-range Forecasts (3-10 days)

4-day Forecasts
Belfast, Birmingham, Dublin, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Plymouth
(from WSI Europe, via WSI / Intellicast, USA; forecasts for other European and global locations are also available)

Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Shannon
- also includes a recent observation for each location (from Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN), USA)

Staffordshire (S), Worcestershire (NE) & the Black Country (via the Wolverhampton Express & Star)

5-day Forecasts
Many UK Towns & Cities (from the Washington Post WeatherPost, Washington, D.C., USA)

10-day Forecasts
Shetland (from Dave Wheeler, via Shetland News, UK)

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Monthly Prospects: 30-day outlook
Monthly prospects Headline - updated every two weeks (from the Met. Office, UK)
United Kingdom (from Weather Action)

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SHIPPING FORECASTS

The United Kingdom issues forecasts and warnings of gales for the waters around the British Isles, the North Sea, northwards to Iceland and southwards to the waters off Spain and Portugal. The Irish Met. Service issue forecasts and warnings for the coastal waters around Ireland and for the Irish Sea.

Shipping Forecast for coastal waters around Ireland including the Irish Sea (courtesy of RTE, Ireland)
Gale Warnings for coastal waters around Ireland including the Irish Sea (courtesy of RTE, Ireland)

Main Shipping forecast (4 issues per day) (from the Met. Office, UK, for the BBC) Map Of Sea Areas around the British Isles
Inshore Waters Forecast for the UK (from the Met. Office, UK)
Gale Warning - most recent message (from the Met. Office, UK)

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MISCELLANEOUS FORECASTS

Air Quality Forecasts
UK Air Quality - also observations (from AEA Technology, UK)

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Aurora Forecast
Aurora Forecast For Week Ahead - scroll down to global map & click on British Isles (from the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA) - April to September (approx.) only

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Ultra-Violet Radiation Forecasts
European Ultra-Violet Radiation Forecast (from the Institute of Medical Physics, Austria) Info.

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Coded Forecasts: mainly in TAF code
Aviation forecasts for Airports worldwide: reports are decoded on this National Weather Service (US) site (via NWS, USA)
Short Term Aviation forecasts: reports are decoded on this National Weather Service (US) site (via NWS, USA)

Please use these labels to move around this page more quickly:
Warnings, Flash Warnings of Severe Weather, Avalanche Warnings, Marine Gale Warnings, Forecasts (short-period), Annotated Forecast Charts & Satellite Imagery, Medium-Range forecasts & Monthly Prospects, Forecasts (medium-range), Forecast (30-day outlook), Shipping Forecasts, Miscellaneous Forecasts, Air Quality Forecast, Aurora Forecast, UV Radiation Forecast, Coded Forecasts (TAFs, etc.)

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This page last updated: 1999SEP04