Weekend Weather Outlook

Weekend Weather 19th-20th June 2004 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 - see link further down the page - for a selection of hill cams. And whatever you do, have a good one. Oh misery, this is what you get for celebrating summer on the home page :-( One general link: UK Weather which gives you the option of an hour by hour local forecast for anywhere in the UK as well as UK maps, a fishing forecast, ahem, and a lot more besides. Metcheck for good overviews as well as a mountain forecast that allows you to select indidual peaks throughout the UK with a 72-hour graphic summary of conditions hour by hour plus a load of other interesting stuff. Temperatures are about to 'drop like a stone' with cold, blustery weather and many areas struggling to make the mid-teens by early next week. Northerly wind for the weekend, cool, blustery and showering with overnight frosts in Scotland about now and in northern England early next week. Yep, it's Wimbledon time again... Geoff Monk and Associates has a great downloadable mountain-specific forecast for Eastern and Western Highlands, Peak District and Lakes in PDF format. Cool with moderate winds from the north, showers and rain in the afternoon in the Peak, all day in the Lakes and very cold for the time of year on the tops. Plus wintry showers and even some settling snow on the tops in Scotland, again very cold for the time of year high up. Nevisport's mountain weather forecast covers the main UK mountain areas, updated twice a day and gives both a general overview and a three-day outlook with useful stats like wind speed, freezing levels and both valley and summit temperatures. Met Office outlook for Saturday 'Rain across Scotland with showers elsewhere. ' Sunday similarly showery with the odd sunny spell. For localised five-day forecasts use this page. Welsh Mountain Forecasts Excellent online forecasts covering the National Park areas of Snowdonia - and the Brecon Beacons. Part of a six-month trial now coming to an end but still up and running.

BBC Weather Site Saturday 'Cloudy with rain over northeast Scotland, spreading to central and southeast Scotland through the day. Sunny spells and showers elsewhere, with heavy and thundery bursts to the southeast, driest in Northern Ireland. ' Sunday 'Plenty of showers, sometimes heavy, will affect the UK in a cool northwesterly airstream. More persistent rain over northern Scotland will push south across the rest of Scotland through the day. Cool. ' BBC specific areas: Fort William / Kendal / Betws-y-Coed / Aviemore / Skipton / Glossop (Peak) / Brecon / Milton Keynes.

Wasdaleweb weather - Always worth a loook just for the piccy from OM member Guy Newbold who lives and works in Wasdale. See also the live webcam pics of Scafell Pike and Great Gable. The Wasdaleweb Webcam now has a flash new camera for higher quality images and they looks great plus there's now a new Scafell Pike web cam. Scottish Avalanche Information Service - The good old Avalanche Information Service has gone into hibernation for the summer now that winter's over, the birds are singing, spring is - allegedly - in the air and all that palaver. Can rain or midges avalanche? Nope...

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. Ho hum... South of the border showery rather than delugey... Cold on tops, wet, northerly winds, classic autumn mountain day :-( Verdict Not very lovely, but then Wimbledon starts next week, so what did you expect. Low pressure trough, winds from the north, frosts at night in the north, rain, showers - and you thought it was June. Treat it like a classic autumn weekend and you won't go far wrong. It's going to be chilly up top as well, so don't leave your insulation layers, hat or gloves behind even if it is June. Still, it'll make the good weather feel even better once it's here... 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.