Shipping Forecast in Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, and Fair Isle"). This sometimes follows the opposite format (e.g., "There are warnings of gales in all areas except Biscay, Trafalgar and FitzRoy"). The "General Synopsis" follows, giving the position, pressure (in millibars) and track of pressure areas (e.g., "Low, Rockall, 987, deepening rapidly, expected Fair Isle 964 by 0700 tomorrow"). Each area's forecast is then read out. Several areas may be combined into a single forecast where the conditions are expected to be similar. Wind direction is given first, then strength (on the Beaufort scale), followed by precipitation, if any, and (usually) lastly visibility.
Shipping Forecast in Jasper Fforde's debut novel "The Eyre Affair" are named after Sea Areas in the shipping forecast. Charlie Connelly's 2004 book "Attention All Shipping" (Little Brown: ) describes a project to visit every sea area with any land, and to travel by air or sea over the others. For his project ""The Shipping Forecast - an Artist's Journey", which began in 2015, Troon-based artist Ian Rawnsley plans to travel by sea through each of the sea areas and create a painting inspired by each, to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. In March 2017, Peter Jefferson recorded a reinvented version