Old, Used, Weekend Weather Outlook
Hitch up your skirts, roll up your sleeves as Walter the Weathergirl pirouettes gracefully through the sunny spells of early spring and the weekend weather outlook...
Posted: 11 April 2003
by Walter The Weathergirl
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Weekend Weather
12th-13th April 2003
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This is our regular Friday
round-up of what's in store for the weekend. Latest news on
the excellent Online Weather mountain forecast, is that it's
now due back in early February, which is about erm last
month and now the month before. but it's still not quite
up... So will the 'Indian Winter' cold snap continue?
The Met
Office says Saturday's
going to be mainly dry with sunny spells and some isolated
showers. Brighter in east, temperatures between about 9 and
12 C, light winds except on southern coasts.
Sunday looks bright and sunny in
Wales and northern England, cloudier with sunny spells
elsewhere. Temperatures about the same as Saturday but
windier so will feel cooler.
The BBC
Weather site uses Met Office
data, but is generally easier to follow.
Saturday going to get early mist
but clearing to leave things mostly dry and bright with
sunny spells but some cloudier periods. A few showers mostly
in far north of Scotland, far SW England and maybe N
Ireland. War (sic) in teh sun.
Sunday dry bright sunny start,
becoming cloudy, wet and windy in southwest and later in N I
reland, a few showers elsewhere as well. Warm in the west,
chilly near eastern coasts.
Check BBC's specific areas:
Fort
William / Kendal
/ Betws-y-Coed
/ Aviemore
/ Skipton
/ Glossop
(Peak) / Brecon
/ Milton
Keynes. Eastern Scotland looks
the best bet if you want to stay dry...
Saturday's
general forecast from Online
Weather cloudy with sunny spells. Sunday
cloudy with rain in the west. Hmmmm.... Still no mountain
weather.
Scotland
Online Mountain Weather - Handy
specialist mountain forecasts for Scottish east and west
Highland areas and, strangely, Snowdonia and the Lake
District. Well worth a look.
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Wasdale
weather - daily reports updated
before 10 am, a local forecast and a current pic - always
worth a loook just for the piccy. - from OM member Guy
Newbold who lives and works in Wasdale. Straight from the
horse's mouth.
Scottish
Avalanche Information Service -
forecasts at the time of writing are low, check before
heading out for the latest situation, Great Slab in Coirre
Lochain, northern corries may, apparently, avalanche any
time soon, so make sure you're not under it...
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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...
Getting slightly warmer again and mostly dry with sunny
spells too
... nowt really, this is pretty good for April.
Verdict Starting to warm up a
little after a cooler few days mid-week, which is definitely
a good thing, though it'll feel cooler in the livelier wind
on Sunday but warm in the sun. Mostly dry, but potential for
the odd shower. Looks like a good one to us.
Craven 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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