Articles on the shipping forecast

October 6, 2025

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia and Benjamin Redding, University of East Anglia

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

January 31, 2024

Samuel Oyewole, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

Suez Canal ship traffic has dropped sharply due to frequent attacks at sea.

October 24, 2023

Cerys Jones, Aberystwyth University

More than 800 lives were lost in the Royal Charter storm but it also led to improvements in weather forecasting.

Samuel Oyewole
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
Cerys Jones
Geography Lecturer, Aberystwyth University
Benjamin Redding
Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of East Anglia
Claire Jowitt
Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of East Anglia