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The National Forecasts
• Online
Weather's Mountain Forecast for
today, Friday, shows bright sunshire everywhere with
temperatures of about minus 5 or 6, so it's looking good,
but still loads of snow lying around on the tops.
Unfortunately the weekend doesn't look so good, with snow
and rain forecast both days with a humdinger of a cold snowy
day on Saturday.
• The
Met Office promises snow on
northerly hills on Satuday, scattered showers with sunny
intervals in the north on Sunday with the beautiful south
getting rained on.
• Three-day
pressure analysis animation from
the Met Office shows a lovely low swinging in from the
Atlantic with a pink front sweeping in over the country on
Saturday. Hmmm...
• Online
Weather for Saturday general
forecast shows nationwide precipiation (sulk),
Sunday
brighter in the north, still wet in the south.
• Ananova's
forecast says rain across
northern Britain on Saturday, preceded by snow. Northern
Ireland will be wet all day. South-eastern parts fair.
Northern England and north Wales will have rain on Sunday.
Further north it will be windy with showers. South of the
rain it will be dry with sunny spells. Which is basically
the opposite of everyone else's foreacast. Come on girl, get
with it.
The Bottom Line Unfortunately
Friday looks like the best day to be out with sun and
coldness abounding. Most hill areas are going to cop snow
and wind on Saturday with things being a bit less frenzied
on Sunday. Dagnabbit.
In Your Pack Or On Your Back
Water/windproofs, hat, gloves... decent insulation layer
for stops cos it's cold out there, survival bag. Crampons
and axe if you're heading up where there's snow or the
prospect of meltwater seeping onto paths. The mud in the
Peak might still be frozen if you're lucky.
Avalanche According to the
Scottish Avalanche Information Service, recent snow and bad
weather has upped the avalanche risk in most Scottish areas
to 3 (considerable) with a load of fresh snow from mid-week
making walkins and climb approaches arduous and hazardous
and we'd guess that the new snow on Saturday isn't going to
help things much. Looks like a good weekend to stick to the
ridges. Check the latest
forecast before heading
off.
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