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Weekend Weather
16th-17th 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.
Seems to be broken this
morning, so Microsoft VBScript runtime error
'800a003e' Input past end of file
/INCLUDES/GENERIC/_functions.asp, line 1016. Oh
dear, that doesn't sound good...
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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.
Dry south of the border,
sunny spells, a bit of cloud, a bit of a breeze, 12
or 16 C or so on the tops, which will make a
change. North of the border, there's a risk of
drizzle on Saturday and, rain on Sunday - patchy in
the East Highlands later on but widespread in the
NW Highlands.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page.
Saturday ' Dry, some sunshine
over England and Wales. Rain at times over Scotland and
Northern Ireland..'
Sunday More of the
same.
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 ' Occasional rain or
drizzle over Scotland and Northern Ireland at first but
drier and brighter spells developing in eastern parts.
Elsewhere dry with sunny spells after early morning mist or
fog clears.."
Sunday ' Mostly cloudy over
Scotland and Northern Ireland with occasional rain, mainly
in the north and west. Mainly dry over England and Wales
with sunny spells but cloudier near western coasts.
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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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Warm, dry, bits of sun and not as warm as recently...
Some rain in Scotland on Sunday.
Verdict Looks like one of those
hazy sumnmer weekends with a mix of cloud and sunny spells.
Not as warm as it has been and a nice, brisk easterly wind
should keep you cool on the tops. Nice, 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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