Weekend Mountain Weather Outlook
Not as comprehensively summery as recently reckons Walter, but you can still expect warm temperatures particularly in the valleys along with the odd shower. All the weather you can shake an umbrella at...
Posted: 28 July 2006
by Walter the Weather Girl
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Weekend Weather
29th - 30th July '06
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Fact of the Week!
Todmorden averages one day of full
sunshine per decade, which is more than
most caves get anyway
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Our regular Friday round-up of what's
in store for the weekend. Just check the links for the relevant
weather forecasts and if you want to know how things look in a
particular area right now, check out the OM
web cams page for a selection of hill
cams. And whatever you do, have a good one.
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Metcheck
for good overviews of localised areas based on a number
of meteorological models. Loads of quirky options for stuff
like rain forecasts plus offbeat, leftfield weather
generalisations. Get stuck in and have a browse, there's a
lot on this site.
They say: Metcheck's founder is
going to be on Radio Five Live this morning at 10.30 talking
about running a dot com and how Metcheck and the internet
has changed his life, so if you want to know about the
weather you'll have to dig a bit deeper - looks like sunny
spells and rain based on the 7-day
UK page.
You can check out individual areas or dig
a bit deeper for the Mountain
Forecast page or
the Climbing
Forecast page. The
Seven-Day
Charts give a handy
overview too.
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Mountain
Weather Information
Service has great
downloadable mountain-specific forecasts for NW, W and SE
Highlands, Cairngorms, Southern Uplands, Peak District and
Lakes in PDF format. Plus a Snowdonia forecast. The Peak and
Snowdonia forecasts are now restricted to weekend forecasts
and go out on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Worth wading
through the increasingly cluttered lay-out.
They say: Still very warm, but a tad
unsettled in many areas, buffeting winds north of the border
particularly and the risk of rain or showers spreading into
the west later on Saturday in most mountain regions. Odd
showers on Sunday but generally drier. Temperatures in the
20s in the valleys and 14C or so on the tops.
Check individual forecasts for specific
details. Arguably the best mountain-specific forecast out
there by a way.
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BBC
Weather Site uses Met
Office data, but more user friendly. Just been revamped for
the summer, weird stuff but easy access to a lot more
information including rain forecasts, cloud, wind,
temperature, visibility etc. Nice. Localised forecasts
accessible from the same page.
Saturday 'Still warm and humid.
Rather cloudy, the best of any hazy sunshine in the east but
the chance of shower here too. Rain spreading into western
areas during the afternoon, heavy at times, becoming rather
breezy here too.'
Sunday 'Cloudy and wet start for
southern England but brightening in the afternoon. Elsewhere
largely dry and sunny but a few isolated showers are
possible in the west. Breezy and feeling
fresher.'
BBC specific areas:
Fort
William / Kendal
/ Betws-y-Coed
/ Aviemore
/ Skipton
/ Glossop
(Peak) / Brecon
/ Milton
Keynes.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page. See weather for the
next
week.
Saturday 'Fine in the east until
evening. Elsewhere wet and windy.'
Sunday Mostly dry with sunny
spells and the odd shoer in the south.
Welsh Mountain Forecasts Useful
online forecasts covering the National Park areas of
Snowdonia
- and the Brecon
Beacons.
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Scottish
Avalanche Information Service
- The last daily avalanche forecast for the season has been
and gone. In the winter there are avalanche and climbing
condition reports for five major Scottish climbing areas -
Lochaber, northern and southern Cairngorms, Glencoe and
Creag Meagaidh. But we don't want to think about that for a
while yet ...
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OUTDOORSmagic
web cam page Links to all the UK
mountain web cams we're aware of. If there's one that we've
missed, please drop
us a line and we'll add it to the
page. Good for getting a general idea of what the snow
situation's like, if the sun is shining, whether there's
anywhere to park in Coniston etc. Check the image you're
viewing is up to date as they often seem to go down.
We'll overhaul this page shortly as some of the links
aren't functioning or the cameras have disappeared - nicked?
You have to hope not ;-)
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Still warm and mostly dry.
Some rain and showers likely.
Verdict Less comprehensively summery than
recently. You can expect some rain later on Saturday and perhaps the
odd shower on Sunday plus, according to the MWIS, some buffeting from
wind particularly north of the border. It will still be hot with 20
plus temperatures in the valleys with requent sunny spells, so pack
lots of fluids along with the lightweight waterproofs.
Have a good one.
Obvious Disclaimer Hey come on, we all know
mountain weather's unpredictable, and while the above forecasts and
links are a guide to what the weather may do, remember that mountain
areas also tend to generate their own conditions, temperatures are
much cooler up top than in the valleys and conditions can be totally
different from down in the valleys.
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