Shipping Forecast excluding the header line, has a limit of 350 words—except for the 0048 broadcast, where it is increased to 380 to accommodate Trafalgar's inclusion—and has a very strict format. It begins with "And now the Shipping Forecast, issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at xxxx today." This format is followed quite strictly, although some continuity announcers read out the actual date of issue as opposed to the word "today". This is followed by gale warnings (winds of force 8 or more on the Beaufort scale), if any (e.g., "There are warnings of gales
BBC Weather the BBC Weather App for both iOS devices (although initially not optimised for iPad) and Android devices (via the Google Play Store). Both versions were designed by Media Applications Technologies, and their data source was the Met Office. BBC Weather BBC Weather is the BBC's department for the preparation and broadcasting of their weather forecasts. The information is provided by MeteoGroup. Previously, the Met Office had been the BBC's provider of weather services for 94 years up to 2017. The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14