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Thread #75402 Message #1325573
Posted By: John MacKenzie
13-Nov-04 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Get Well Soon Charlotte Green
Subject: RE: Get Well Soon Charlotte Green
Why was the name Finisterre changed to FitzRoy?
Those countries providing forecast input for Metarea II (France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco) have agreed on a common set of areas within Metarea II (a similar exercise to that undertaken several years ago for those countries issuing forecasts for the North Sea). Spain has used a sea area Finisterre for many years and this area has been retained in the new co-ordinated set of areas for Metarea II. As this area has different co-ordinates to the area used by the UK (less than half the size of the area that the UK called Finisterre) the United KIngdom agreed to change the name of the area called Finisterre in the forecasts for shipping. Click here for a diagram showing the current revised boundaries of the areas in the South-west Approaches
Don't care what they call it, in Charlotte's voice they all sound sexy. Giok