Saturday, 29 March 2014

Cromaty and the shipping forecast

 
This is a picture of the cliffs at the entrance to the Cromaty Firth, as seen from Hill 99 in Culbin Forest. Cromaty is an estuary up past Inveness but is best known as one of the sea areas on the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast. It might seem outdated now but the idea of putting storm warnings for ships out on the radio was a revolution in 1911. It must have saved a lot of lives in the century since. This use of radio waves is another example of Physics making the world a better place.