In article ,
Martin Rowley m
writes:
When
writing the Shipping Forecast, by the time you get to Malin, Hebrides
etc., you find you're rapidly running out of words (strictly limited)
and have to lump areas together with no leeway to sub-divide. It's only
a guess, but I've known it happen.

Given that the worst weather in the seas round the UK tends to be to the
north-west - and it's therefore more likely to be important to put in
the detail there - and the limited time for the forecast, would there be
a case for dealing with the sea areas in anti-clockwise rather than the
current clockwise order? Or alternatively to stick to clockwise but to
change the starting point to, for example, Shannon?
--
John Hall
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