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Weekend Weather
14th-15th May '05
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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 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.
'Messy' in the south, but
hey, high pressure stays in control over northern
areas - we know where we'd rather be.
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Mountain
Weather Information
Service has a
great downloadable mountain-specific
forecast for Eastern and Western
Highlands, Peak District and
Lakes in PDF format. Plus a Snowdonia
forecast. The Peak and Snowdonia forecasts are now
restricted to weekend forecasts and go ou ton
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Check specific forecasts. The
limit of the rain seems to be somewhere around
mid-Wales which means mostly hazy dryness for
northern British mountain areas and the Peak. Not
super warm and a tad windy in some areas, but at
least it won't be raining. Unless you're in
Scotland on Sunday in which case you may cop some
showers. Heading in the right direction we reckon.
Dry and cold early next week.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page.
Saturday ' Rain at times in windy
southern parts. Dry elsewhere. '
Sunday And again.
Welsh Mountain Forecasts Useful
online forecasts covering the National Park areas of
Snowdonia
- and the Brecon
Beacons.
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BBC
Weather Site uses Met
Office data, but more user friendly.
Saturday ''Rain, some heavy,
edging slowly northwards across southern counties of
England, perhaps reaching as far north as south Wales to E
Anglia. by dusk. Windy and feeling cold in teh south. Sunny
spells elsewhere. "
Sunday 'Rain in teh south dryin
gout. Dry elsewhere. Sunny spells especially in the west and
northwest, but some eastern and southern parts staying
rather cloudy. Becoming less windy in the south.'
BBC specific areas:
Fort
William / Kendal
/ Betws-y-Coed
/ Aviemore
/ Skipton
/ Glossop
(Peak) / Brecon
/ Milton
Keynes.
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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 flashy new
camera for higher quality images and they looks great plus
there's now a new Scafell Pike web cam, which is currently
not working...
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Scottish
Avalanche Information Service
- The avalanche forecast is finished for the season, back
next winter.
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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. Ho
hum... Just updated with several new cams and fixed
links.
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Dry with sunny spells oop north.
Wet darn sarf.
Verdict Head north young mountain
person where it'll be dry with sunny spells most of the
weekend. Breezy and not super warm, but not bad either. The
south cops it from the rain though. Enjoy.
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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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