Mountain Weather Back In July

Regular users will have noticed the absence of Online Weather's excellent mountain forecast with its hill area-specific three-day outlooks, freezing levels and so on.

The good news is that it will, we're told, be back in a new and improved form, as will the sailing and ten-day forecasts, the bad news is that it may not return until the middle of July, although the company says that it will be earlier if possible.

The background to the changes is that American online forecasting outfit AccuWeather. Inc. has bought the British site necessitating some changes. Online Weather's Douglas Yule comments:

'We appreciate that this has been inconvenient to many of you, However you can be assured that when the new look site is launched there will be lots of additional content available, with new few features and hopefully a better all round user experience.

'So our apologies for the disruption to our normal service, but please stick with us during the next two months, whilst we work on the new site.'

Unfortunately, while the Mountain Forecast is suspended, the links on the OUTDOORSmagic weather page map lead to a cavernous virtual void and we've yet to find and adequate substitute. For general weather information however, check out the BBC Weather Centre.

Anyway, it's summer, isn't it? Who needs a weather forecast?

I'll get my waterproof coat...