Anyone off to the Brecon Beacons or Snowdonia National Parks for
the weekend might like to know that the Met Office is carrying
mountain weather forecasts for both areas on its site.
The forecasts comprise a detailed description of today's expected
conditions including visibility, cloudbase, wind and temperature at
summit level - 900 metres for Snowdonia - and freezing levels, which
you'll be glad to know are well above the summits. In addition
there's a two-day outlook, which is more general, but also includes
expected temperatures on the tops.
Great stuff and apparently produced by the Cardiff Met Office in
conjunction with the Welsh Tourist Boards and the Welsh Assembly.
Hopefully other UK regions will take note and introduce similarly
useful forecasts for other mountain areas.
Links, you want links? Erm, okay, here's the Snowdonia
forecast and here's the Brecon
Beacons one. For our regular Friday morning round-up of the
weekend weather links, see this
page.
Thanks to OMer Marcus Crompton for tipping us off about the
mountain forecasts.
