Pick A Mountain, Any Mountain...

Pick a mountain, any mountain - okay, not quite any, but a fair spread across the UK and Ireland - and get a localised forecast on the web.

The excellent Metcheck site has a dedicated mountain page which we somehow managed to overlook before. It's broken down into general mountain areas, the Lake District for example, which in turn lists individual peaks.

Select your mountain and you get a 72-hour forecast, at three-hour intervals, covering temperature, precipation, wind direction and speed, and cloud cover and base. You can also use the drop down menu at the top of the page to choose altitude settings, so today on Snowdon, for example, the temperature at sea level at 3.00 pm is expected to be 7C, with 11 mph winds, while on the summit, the corresponding figures are 3C and 17 mph.

Useful resource though with some quirks - the Peak District, for example, list Featherbed Top 544 m (1784 ft , Kinder Low 633 m (2076 ft) and Kinder Scout 636 m (2086 ft).

The first, we think, is Bleaklow, but the last two are basically the same place unless you're being unusually pedantic. Anyway, here's the link.

For our regular Friday morning weekend weather round-up, see this page.