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Weekend Weather
1st - 2nd July '06
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Fact of the Week!
Florida averages
300 days of full
sunshine per year
which is more than
lots of places in
the UK put
together...
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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 meteorological 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.
Metcheck has a new Google Earth fusion
thing, unfortunately it's only available to premium members,
but it sounds good anyway.
'The weather over the coming
days and especially into the weekend and also the early part
of next week will see a marked change to the last week or
two as much warmer weather begins to dominate. With winds
originating from a South and eventually Southeast direction
temperatures will soar in conjunction with the strong summer
sunshine and the feed of very warm air off the near
continent.'
In other words, hot, hot, hot...
You can check out individual areas or
dig a bit deeper for the Mountain
Forecast page or the
Climbing
Forecast page. The
Seven-Day
Charts give a handy
overview too.
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Mountain
Weather Information
Service has great
downloadable mountain-specific forecasts for
NW, W and SE Highlands,
Cairngorms, Southern Uplands, Peak District and
Lakes in PDF format. Plus a Snowdonia
forecast. The Peak and Snowdonia forecasts are now
restricted to weekend forecasts and go out on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. Worth wading through the increasingly
cluttered lay-out.
Warm and breezy, windy even in
Scotland with a small risk of thunderstorms on Saturday
then, on Sunday, more of the same with a great risk of
thunderstorms later on in the the southern half of the UK.
It should be nice and warm on the tops as
well.
Check individual forecasts for
specific details. Arguably the best mountain-specific
forecast out there by a way.
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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 'Western Scotland and
Northern Ireland will be mostly cloudy with a few showers.
Elsewhere should be dry with hot sunshine. The coasts will
be cooler and perhaps a little misty, especially in the
west.'
Sunday 'Similar to Saturday.
Chance of a few sharp showers in western fringes. Most
places will be dry with hazy sunshine. Hot inland, but at
least a noticeable breeze across southern areas.'
BBC specific areas:
Fort
William / Kendal
/ Betws-y-Coed
/ Aviemore
/ Skipton
/ Glossop
(Peak) / Brecon
/ Milton
Keynes.
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Met
Office For localised
five-day forecasts use this
page. See weather for the
next
week.
Saturday 'Mainly fine. Locally
hot.'
Sunday And again
Welsh Mountain Forecasts Useful
online forecasts covering the National Park areas of
Snowdonia
- and the Brecon
Beacons.
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Scottish
Avalanche Information Service
- The last daily avalanche forecast for the season has been
and gone. In the winter there are avalanche and climbing
condition reports for five major Scottish climbing areas -
Lochaber, northern and southern Cairngorms, Glencoe and
Creag Meagaidh. But we don't want to think about that for a
while yet ...
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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.
We'll overhaul this page shortly as some of the links
aren't functioning or the cameras have disappeared - nicked?
You have to hope not ;-)
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Sunshine and clearness in virtually all areas.
Risk of thunderstorms, particularly on Sunday.
Verdict July comes in with a scorcher of a
weekend. It's looking warm and dry with a bit of a cooling breeze as
well, particularly north of the border. There's a small possibility
of thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday with rain looking more likely
late on in the southern half of the UK according to the
MWIS.
One of those weekends when you need to pack the
sun cream and a lightweight waterproof just in case, but if it looks
like summer, feels like summer and tastes like summer then it
probably is :-)
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.
