Weekend Weather Outlook

Weekend Weather 17th-18th July 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. 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. Metcheck now on a a paid-for content basis, but you still get 100 free page views per month and the free content is now more extensive. August, they say, will be cool and unsettled with a cold autumn to come, so that's nice. Run through the UK six-hour forecast maps for the weekend and you'll see that it's all sunshine and showers, Sunday a little drier, dark at night and dry then too :-) Loads of other weather toys to play with as well. Geoff Monk and Associates has a great downloadable mountain-specific forecast for Eastern and Western Highlands, Peak District and Lakes in PDF format. Showery sort of weekend pretty much everywhere. Light winds south of the Scottish border, they say, having little effect, but north of the border showers look heavier and stronger winds could 'impede' walking particularly on the tops. 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 Morning rain over Scotland, northern England, Wales. Dry, but rather cloudy elsewhere. Brighter afternoon with scattered showers. Sunday showery in the north, drier at the southern end of things. 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.

BBC Weather Site Saturday 'Cloud and rain over northern England and Wales will gradually clear in the morning. Otherwise a mixture of sunny spells and showers is expected with the most showers in the southeast and the sunniest conditions in the north. ' Sunday 'Mostly cloudy in the southeast, with some heavy showers. Otherwise a mainly fine, dry and sunny start. Showers will develop, especially across Scotland, but there will still be plenty of dry, sunny weather around. ' BBC specific areas: Fort William / Kendal / Betws-y-Coed / Aviemore / Skipton / Glossop (Peak) / Brecon / Milton Keynes. Pollen Forecast low to medium pretty much everywhere.

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... Sunshine... And showers. Verdict Mixed up sunshine and showers weekend for you, some heavy, but also some sunshine. Nothing to keep you indoors, but don't forget shower / rain proof clothing and be aware that it may be quite windy on the tops on Scottish hills. 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.