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PhilipStapleton

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I get the forecast for Monday 6th when I access Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis here

BBC Weather Inshore area 14

As the Met Office actually forecast an 8 for the Solent, it's fortunate I noticed the date before taking a new boat from Portsmouth to Beaulieu.

Does everyone else get Monday's forecast, or is it just a glitch in my machine?
 
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Does everyone else get Monday's forecast, or is it just a glitch in my machine?

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BBC have a problem again, same thing happened last week and with local land forecasts. It seems to take them ages to realise it is not working and put a warning up, plus there is no easy means of contact to tell them. Maybe it is their way of improving accuracy, forecast previous Monday on following Tuesday/Wednesday.
 
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Thanks for posting the URL -

Why does the met office charge me for the same info when I log onto MetWeb?

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Donno, but if you're a Unix/Linux/Mac OSX/CygWin geek, and save the following as two shell scripts in your $PATH, as say 'inshore' & 'shipping', then you'll get the latest forecast without even opening a web browser :-)
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wget -O - --quiet http://www.metoffice.com/datafiles/inshore.html | sed -n '/Issued /,/&copy/p' | tr -d '\r\r' |sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'| less
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wget -O - --quiet http://www.metoffice.com/datafiles/offshore.html | sed -n '/THE SHIPPING FORECAST ISSUED/,/<tr>/p' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'| tr "&nbsp;" ". end "|less
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Reading it out in a Charlotte Green voice is LAAEFTR (q.v. GPS Nav & DearHeart thread)

HTH
 
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There is nothing wrong with your machine it does it to mine too! damn BBC, there weather is normally pretty good.

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Their coastal pages are not. I wrote a long letter when they first appeared, some items they appeared to take on, such as navtex notice to mariners. But I suggested they date and time their forecasts, they still do not do this, without knowing the time the forecast was broadcast you could be working with 24hr old information. That is not only dangerous, but you would end in hock if you were in court following a problem at sea.

No your honour, I had no idea what time the forecast was from, I did not know that 12 hours after it a gale warning had been given.

I go straight to the met office, at least the local forecast areas are also consistent, BBC have decided to create their own, God knows why?
 
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