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Weekend Weather
13th-14th August '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 of localised areas based on
a number of meterological models. Loads of quirky
options for stuff like rain forecasts plus offbeat,
leftfield weather generalisations. Get stuck in and
have a browse, there's a lot on this
site.
"A change for the worse in
the weather over the next couple of days, as an
active area of low pressure pushes rain across the
whole of the UK.
The rain will arrive across
Ireland and North-west Scotland during Saturday
morning, then push South-east across the whole
country during the day." - so that's
nice.
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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.
Rain and buffety winds on
Saturday pretty much everywhere, Sunday still a tad
windy but looks likely to be dry.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page.
Saturday ' Rain, heavy at times in
the north, clearing east across most parts, followed by
sunny intervals and showers. '
Sunday The rain should bog off
leaving most places with sunny intervals.
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 ' Dry in the southeast
at first, but rain in the north and west, heavy at times,
will move southeast across all parts, followed by brighter
conditions with sunny intervals and showers. Rather windy in
most places. "
Sunday ' Mainly dry with sunny
spells, but some showers are likely, these chiefly in
central and eastern parts of England, with perhaps an
isolated heavy one in the extreme east. Rather windy near
the east coast.. '
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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Sunday looking okay, if windy.
Rainy on Saturday.
Verdict Call this August? I want a
refund or at least an exchange summer weekend some time in
September. Actually it shouldn't be that bad - looks like
some rain in most parts on Saturday and blowy too, but
Sunday should be a lot drier albeit with blustery winds on
the tops. Don't forget your sarnies...
Still, at least it's not supposed to pour
down with rain. 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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