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.
Southerly Buster the south as the crow flies. The people of Sydney greeted the arrival of the southerly buster after a hot summer day. During the early days of the European settlement, Sydney's summer storms were accompanied by rolling red dust from the colony's brickworks. In 1879, George Herbert Gibson published a book called "Southerly Busters", where a buster wreaks havoc near Hyde Park, Sydney. Author Ruth Park makes a reference to the southerly buster in her novel Poor Man's Orange (1949): After an unbearably hot day, the old men on the balconies were sniffing the air and saying, 'Here she comes!'