Weekend Mountain Weather Outlook
It's a mixed bag for the weekend with mild temperatures but the possibility of rain and / or windiness in many UK mountain areas. All the links you need to plan your weekend outfit ;-)
Posted: 4 August 2006
by Walter the Weather Girl
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Weekend Weather
5th - 6th August '06
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Fact of the Week!
The odds of being struck by lightning
are approximately
1 in 800,000
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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: A brief change afoot
for the UK weather this weekend as a ridge of high pressure
nudges in from the South-west. Although we can't promise
wall-to-wall sunshine, it'll certainly be better than we've
seen over the past few days, especially for Eastern areas.
Saturday, they say, looks positive
with temperatures up to around 27C in many places, but
Sunday sees a frontal system pushing in from the
NW.
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: Quite a variable one
depending on where you are but you're likely to get some
rain in most areas, particularly on Sunday and the odd bit
of wind buffetting as well, particularly in England and
Wales and north of the border on Sunday. Pretty mild on the
tops and hot in the valleys. Check individual area forecasts
for detail.
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 'Eastern England may
start bright but thicker cloud with some rain will drift
east later. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be
mainly dry but rain will reach the far northwest
later.'
Sunday 'Scotland and Northern
Ireland will be cloudy with rain spreading gradually towards
the southeast. England and Wales will be mainly dry and very
warm in places.'
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 'Northern areas cloudy
with some rain at times. Elsewhere, mainly dry with spells
of sunshine, best of these in southeast. Warm..'
Sunday
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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Mild and sometimes sunny.
You can expect rain or showers in most areas at some point and
windiness too.
Verdict It's a variable sort of weekend if
the forecasters are right with mild temperatures even on the tops,
hot days in the valleys but a fair chance of rain or showers in most
areas. You can also expect some buffeting from the wind high up with
windspeeds up to 35mph with 50 mph gusts forecast for the West
Highlands on Sunday for example. Check the specifics but don't forget
your shell clothing unless you're in the south east in which case you
can, apparently, break open the sun cream...
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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