As Radio 4 continues to celebrate the centenary of the Shipping Forecast, some of our Continuity team have travelled the length and breadth of the UK to some of the famous points on the forecast. in a special programme called The Shipping Postcards, the announcers explore their connections to the famous forecast. The Shipping Forecast | Listen on BBC Sounds | BBC Radio 4

The world's most popular shipping routes are clear to see in this dataset of ship traffic over the course of a year from ships that voluntarily provide weather observations (only about 10% of all commercial ships). After being stuck in the Suez Canal for nearly a week blocking all traffic, the ship Ever Given has been freed. Look at how much traffic there typically is through there! Read more here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/shipping-routes-with-labels-one-year/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere