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Weekend Weather
2nd-3rd July '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.
'Awesome weather' they say.
Unfortunately, by that they seem to mean heavy rain
and nastiness. They're also licking their lips at
the prospect of an unseasonal deep area of low
pressure at the weekend with gales and perhaps
severe gales across the north west. Lots of rain
later in the weekend they say. Come on guys, we
want nice weather, not gales and heavy rain
:-(
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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.A
bit of a mixed bag depending on where you are - doh
- western highlands cop a fair bit of rain, further
east it should be drier, buffeting from winds in
some areas as well. Eastern Highlands dry early on
on Saturday but getting some rain later. Elsewhere
showers and sunny spells are where it's
at.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page.
Saturday ' Outbreaks of rain over
the north and west. Sunny spells developing over the south
and east. '
Sunday Looks like sunny periods
plus showers in the north west of Scotland.
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. Just been revamped for
the summer, weird stuff but easy access to a lot more
information including rain forecasts, cloud, wind,
temperature, visibility etc. Nice. Localised forecasts
accessible from the same page.
Saturday ' Scotland, rain, light
and patchy over the east moving north. England/Wales, mainly
dry with some warm sunshine inland. Cloud and misty around
some south and west coasts. N Ireland, mostly cloudy with
showery rain. "
Sunday ' Cloud and showery rain
moving east across western and central areas followed by
sunny spells with showers mostly over the NW. Eastern parts
some warm sunshine before showers perhaps heavy and thundery
develop. '
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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Sunny intervals.
Showers too, some heavy.
Verdict Hello July :-) Looking
like a mixed bag of sunshine and showers with the rain most
prominent in the north westerly parts of the country. Nice
and mild though. Watch out for some buffeting from winds
high up, particularly on Saturday. Have a good one.
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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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