Coast and sea
General situation
A low near Faeroes will continue to bring strong winds and showers to many coastal waters, with gales continuing to affect the north of Scotland today and tomorrow. The low will then start to fill and slowly move away to the north, with an area of rain affecting southern coastal waters on Thursday.
Issued at:
For coastal areas up to 12 miles offshore for the period to
Inshore waters forecast and strong winds map
Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney (1)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 6 or 7, but occasionally gale 8 until later in north.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate in south, otherwise rough or very rough, occasionally high at first in far northwest.
- Weather
- Squally showers, mainly north.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwest 6 or 7, decreasing 3 to 5 later.
- Sea state
- Moderate or rough in north, slight or moderate in south.
- Weather
- Showers, squally at first.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Rattray Head to Berwick upon Tweed (2)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwest 5 to 7.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwest 5 to 7, decreasing 3 to 5, backing south later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Berwick upon Tweed to Whitby (3)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwest 4 or 5, increasing 6 at times later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- South or southwest 4 to 6, becoming variable 2 to 4 later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate, becoming smooth or slight later.
- Weather
- Showers, rain later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor later.
Whitby to Gibraltar Point (4)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 3 to 5, occasionally 6 later in east.
- Sea state
- Smooth or slight.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwest veering west, 3 to 5.
- Sea state
- Smooth or slight.
- Weather
- Showers, rain later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor later.
Gibraltar Point to North Foreland (5)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 4 or 5, increasing 6 for a time.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate becoming smooth or slight.
- Weather
- Showers later.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Westerly or southwesterly 3 to 5, occasionally 6 later in far south.
- Sea state
- Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers, rain later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor later.
North Foreland to Selsey Bill (6)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 5 or 6, decreasing 3 or 4 for a time.
- Sea state
- Moderate, becoming slight later.
- Weather
- Rain at first, showers later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor at first.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight, becoming moderate.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis (7)
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 or 5.
- Sea state
- Moderate, becoming slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers later.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly (8)
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 3 to 5.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate, occasionally rough at first in far west.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Westerly or southwesterly 3 to 5, occasionally 6 later in west.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel (9)
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 3 to 5.
- Sea state
- Moderate or rough, becoming slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
St Davids Head to Great Orme Head, including St Georges Channel (10)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Moderate in south, slight in north.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Great Orme Head to the Mull of Galloway (11)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate becoming smooth or slight.
- Weather
- Showers then rain.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Isle of Man (12)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West or southwest 4 to 6, decreasing 3 to 5 later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Mainly fair, showers later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally moderate later.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Mainly southwest, becoming variable later, 2 to 4.
- Sea state
- Mainly slight.
- Weather
- Mainly fair, rain later.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally moderate or poor later.
Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough (13)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Westerly or southwesterly 5 or 6, occasionally 7 in north.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate in south, rough or very rough in north.
- Weather
- Squally showers, mainly north.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West 4 to 6, becoming variable 2 to 4 for a time.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate, but rough in far north.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and North Channel (14)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Westerly or southwesterly 4 to 6.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate.
- Weather
- Squally showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- Southwesterly 4 or 5, becoming variable 2 to 4 for a time.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate, becoming smooth or slight.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good occasionally poor.
Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point (15)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Westerly 5 to 7, occasionally gale 8 at first in north.
- Sea state
- Rough or very rough, occasionally high at first in northwest.
- Weather
- Squally showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West or southwest 5 to 7, decreasing 3 to 5.
- Sea state
- Rough or very rough, becoming moderate or rough.
- Weather
- Showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
The Minch (16)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Westerly 6 or 7, but gale 8 until later in north.
- Sea state
- Moderate or rough, but very rough until later near entrances.
- Weather
- Squally showers, perhaps thundery in north.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West 5 to 7, decreasing 3 or 4 later.
- Sea state
- Slight or moderate, but rough near entrances.
- Weather
- Showers, squally at first.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath (17)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- Westerly 6 or 7, but gale 8 until later in north.
- Sea state
- Very rough or high, becoming rough or very rough.
- Weather
- Squally showers, perhaps thundery in north.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West 5 to 7, decreasing 3 or 4 later.
- Sea state
- Rough or very rough, becoming rough later.
- Weather
- Showers, squally at first.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
Shetland Isles (18)
Strong winds are forecast
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- South or southwest 7 or gale 8, decreasing 5 or 6 later.
- Sea state
- Rough or very rough, becoming high for a time in west.
- Weather
- Squally showers.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally poor.
For Coastal areas up to 60 nautical miles from Lerwick, Shetland (18)
Valid Tuesday 03 Jun 2025 at 1800 UTC until Wednesday 04 Jun 2025 at 0600 UTC
General situation
A deep low to the northwest of Shetland gives a strong and showery airstream over the area.
Forecast
- Wind
- Southwesterly 7 to severe gale 9, occasionally 6 at first in east.
- Sea state
- Very rough or high, rough just east of shetland.
- Weather
- Squally showers
- Visibility
- Moderate or good, occasionally poor
Outlook for 12 Hours from 0600 UTC on Wednesday 04 Jun until 1800 UTC on Wednesday 04 Jun
- Wind
- Southwest 7 to severe gale 9 decreasing later 6 or 7.
- Sea state
- Rough or very rough, occasionally high at first north in west.
- Weather
- Squally showers
- Visibility
- Moderate or good, occasionally poor
Channel Islands (19)
24 hour forecast:
- Wind
- West to southwest 3 to 4, locally 5 at times.
- Sea state
- Slight with a low swell, locally moderate at times.
- Weather
- Occasional rain and drizzle in the south of the area this evening, perhaps briefly heavy isolated showers developing after midnight, likely dying out by midday.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally moderate, perhaps locally poor at first.
Outlook for the following 24 hours:
- Wind
- West to southwest 3 to 4, backing south to southwest 5 to 6 by midday Thursday, veering southwest to west again later.
- Sea state
- Slight to moderate, with a low swell, locally rather rough at times on Thursday.
- Weather
- Isolated showers, merging into widespread rain around dawn and again towards dusk, locally heavy.
- Visibility
- Good, occasionally moderate, locally poor at times.
The inshore waters forecast information
Forecasts for UK inshore waters are issued four times a day and cover a period of 24 hours from 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC.
The coastal waters around the British Isles are divided into 19 areas which extend up to 12 nautical miles offshore.
The forecast contains details of wind direction and force, sea state, weather and visibility.
Strong coastal winds (force 6 or more) are displayed for the first 24 hours of the inshore waters forecast.
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