Pick a mountain, any mountain - okay, not quite any, but a fair
spread across the UK and Ireland - and get a localised forecast on
the web.
The excellent Metcheck site has a dedicated mountain page which we
somehow managed to overlook before. It's broken down into general
mountain areas, the Lake District for example, which in turn lists
individual peaks.
Select your mountain and you get a 72-hour forecast, at three-hour intervals,
covering temperature, precipation, wind direction and speed, and
cloud cover and base. You can also use the drop down menu at the top
of the page to choose altitude settings, so today on Snowdon, for
example, the temperature at sea level at 3.00 pm is expected to be
7C, with 11 mph winds, while on the summit, the corresponding figures
are 3C and 17 mph.
Useful resource though with some quirks - the Peak District, for
example, list Featherbed Top 544 m (1784 ft , Kinder Low 633 m (2076
ft) and Kinder Scout 636 m (2086 ft).
The first, we think, is Bleaklow, but the last two are basically
the same place unless you're being unusually pedantic. Anyway, here's
the link.
For our regular Friday morning weekend weather round-up, see
this
page.
The UK's best mountain weather forecast from MWIS is set for severe reductions in the New Year thanks to a lack of funding south of the border.
