The word - Fair
Hi everyone!
I’m a BBC Radio 4 listener, and every day they have a weather news for the coastline. In this news they have communicate things like wind speed and direction, showers, visibility etc. It look like this:
‘Southwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally gale 8 later. Fair. Good.’
And my question is what means word ‘fair’ in this context?
Thanks for any replies!
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The word - Fair
Hi everyone!
I’m a BBC Radio 4 listener, and every day they have a weather news for the coastline. In this news they have communicate things like wind speed and direction, showers, visibility etc. It looks like this:
‘Southwesterly 4 or 5, occasionally gale 8 later. Fair. Good.’
And my question is what means word ‘fair’ in this context?
Thanks for any replies!
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The Met Office shipping forecast has a tightly controlled format, to fit into a short time slot. The last word in your example, "good", relates to visibility The preceding word, "fair", describes weather conditions. "Fair" means it's not raining :) This set " WEATHER: Described as Fair, Rain, Showers, Drizzle, Snow or Extensive Fog as appropriate" is from http://www.fatbadgers.co.uk/Britain/shipping.htm
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