Inshore waters forecast and strong winds

General situation

High pressure over northern and eastern europe will continue to dominate bringing light or moderate and variable breezes to most areas, but strong southeasterly winds will develop in the southwest during Sunday night as an area of low pressure edges in towards southwestern areas. Showers will affect many parts at first with rain moving into the southwest during Monday.

Cape Wrath to Rattray Head including Orkney

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming west or northwest 3 or 4 later. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 3 or less. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate later in northwest. Showers. Good, occasionally poor in Moray Firth.

Rattray Head to Berwick upon Tweed

24 hour forecast: Variable mainly east or northeast, 2 to 4. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable becoming mainly west or northwest later, 2 to 4. Smooth or slight. Showers at first. Good.

Berwick upon Tweed to Whitby

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 3 or less. Smooth. Showers. Good.

Whitby to Gibraltar Point

24 hour forecast: Mainly westerly 2 to 4 at first in south, otherwise variable 3 or less. Smooth or slight. Showers, coastal fog patches later in south. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor near shore in south.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 3 or less, occasionally 4 later. Smooth or slight. Showers, coastal fog patches at first. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor at first near shore.

Gibraltar Point to North Foreland

24 hour forecast: Variable, mainly southwesterly at first, 2 to 4. Smooth or slight. Showers, coastal fog patches later. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor later near shore.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 3 or less, becoming easterly or southeasterly 2 to 4, increasing 4 or 5 later in south. Smooth or slight. Showers at first, coastal fog patches at first. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor at first near shore.

North Foreland to Selsey Bill

24 hour forecast: Variable 2 to 4, becoming easterly 3 or 4 later. Smooth occasionally slight. Showers. Moderate or good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Easterly or southeasterly 3 to 5, increasing 6 at times in west. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate. Rain later. Good, occasionally poor later.

Selsey Bill to Lyme Regis

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming east or southeast 4 or 5 later. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate later. Showers. Moderate or good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East 4 to 6, occasionally 7 for a time. Slight or moderate. Fair then rain at times. Moderate or good, occasionally poor later.

Lyme Regis to Lands End including the Isles of Scilly - Strong wind warning

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming east or southeast 3 to 5, then increasing 5 or 6 later. Smooth or slight becoming slight or moderate, occasionally rough later near Isles of Scilly. Showers. Moderate or good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East or southeast 5 to 7, decreasing 3 or 4 later. Moderate, occasionally rough mainly in west. Rain at times. Moderate or good, occasionally poor.

Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel - Strong wind warning

24 hour forecast: Variable 2 to 4, becoming easterly or southeasterly 3 or 4, increasing 5 or 6 later. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate. Showers. Moderate or good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Easterly or southeasterly 4 to 6, increasing 7 at times in north, and near Lands End at first. Slight or moderate, occasionally rough in west and south. Rain at times. Moderate or good, occasionally poor.

St Davids Head to Great Orme Head, including St Georges Channel

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming easterly or southeasterly 3 or 4 , occasionally 5 later in south. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate later in south. Showers at first. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Easterly or southeasterly 4 to 6, occasionally 3 at first. Smooth or slight at first except in north, otherwise slight or moderate. Rain later. Moderate or good, occasionally poor later in south.

Great Orme Head to the Mull of Galloway

24 hour forecast: Variable 2 to 4, becoming southeast 3 to 5 later. Smooth, occasionally slight later. Showers, fog patches later in Liverpool Bay. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor in Liverpool Bay.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East or southeast 3 to 5, occasionally 6 later. Smooth or slight, occasionally moderate in west. Fog patches at first in Liverpool Bay. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor at first in Liverpool Bay.

Isle of Man

24 hour forecast: Variable 2 to 4, becoming east or southeast 3 or 4. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good, occasionally moderate.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East or southeast 3 or 4, increasing 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate. Fair. Good.

Lough Foyle to Carlingford Lough

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming east or southeast 3 or 4 later. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate south of Ballyquintin Point. Showers. Good, occasionally poor.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East or southeast 3 to 5. Smooth or slight, but slight or moderate until later south of Ballyquintin Point. Mainly fair. Moderate or good.

Mull of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the Firth of Clyde and North Channel

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less, becoming easterly or southeasterly 3 or 4. Smooth or slight. Showers at first. Good, occasionally moderate.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Easterly 3 to 5. Smooth or slight. Mainly fair. Good, occasionally moderate at first.

Mull of Kintyre to Ardnamurchan Point

24 hour forecast: East or southeast 2 to 4. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East or southeast 3 or 4. Smooth or slight, occasionally moderate later in west. Fair. Good.

The Minch

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less. Smooth or slight. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 3 or less. Smooth or slight, becoming slight or moderate in north entrance. Fair. Good.

Ardnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath

24 hour forecast: Variable 3 or less. Slight, occasionally moderate later to the west of the Outer Hebrides. Showers. Good.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: Variable 2 to 4. Slight or moderate. Fair. Good.

Shetland Isles

24 hour forecast: South or southwest 2 to 4, becoming variable 3 or less later. Slight. Showers. Good.

For Coastal areas up to 60 nautical miles from Lerwick, Shetland

Valid Sunday 08 Nov 2026 at 1200 UTC until Monday 09 Nov 2026 at 0000 UTC

General situation: A ridge of high pressure extends east across Shetland waters

Forecast: Southerly or southwesterly 3 or 4, occasionally 2 in west Mainly slight Showers Mainly good

Outlook for 12 Hours from 0000 UTC on Monday 09 Nov until 1200 UTC on Monday 09 Nov: Southerly or southwesterly 3 or 4, occasionally 2 at first in west and later in south Mainly slight Showers Mainly good

Channel Islands - Strong wind warning

24 hour forecast: Southeast 2 to 4, backing east 4 to 5 by dawn Monday, locally 6 especially in the north of the area. Smooth, locally slight, increasing slight to moderate later. Mist or fog patches in the south at first patchy rain in the south of the area from midnight. Good, occasionally moderate, locally poor or very poor at first.

Outlook for the following 24 hours: East to southeast 4 to 5, occasionally 6, mainly mid-channel, decreasing 3 to 5 by midnight, veering southeast to south 2 to 4 later. Slight to moderate, locally rather rough or rough mid-channel until midnight. Occasional rain from dusk, Monday. Good, occasionally moderate.