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October 31 2008
Neil Nunes reads the shipping forecast. He's a Jamaican British announcer on Radio 4 with the best voice I've ever heard. He only occasionally reads this and I've been waiting for weeks to grab it. His enunciation of the words is impossibly precise and he sounds like a British version of James Earl Jones.
The shipping forecast, for the unindoctrinated, is a twice daily detailed weather forecast for sailors around the British Isles. Why it's read out on a national broadcaster to millions of irrelevent listeners is because it's mired in tradition. To understand the shipping forecast, which is byzantine at times, you'll need this map and, for pros only, some of the technical details.
The shipping forecast, for the unindoctrinated, is a twice daily detailed weather forecast for sailors around the British Isles. Why it's read out on a national broadcaster to millions of irrelevent listeners is because it's mired in tradition. To understand the shipping forecast, which is byzantine at times, you'll need this map and, for pros only, some of the technical details.
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