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Weekend 1/2 September
2001
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This is our regular Friday
round-up of the general weather situation for the
weekend plus links to specifics for all the main UK
hills. For a particular area, scroll down and
follow the links, which all open in a new window.
Once you've read it, close the window and check out
the next. .
Sunny periods on Saturday, rain in W Scotland and
Ireland, but better elsewhere.
Sunday looks wetter and cloudier with breezy,
cooler weather in the north.
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Overall: We've
seen better, but then we've seen a lot
worse as well.
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In Your Pack Or On Your Back
Looks like you can leave the sun cream at home.
Pack a waterproof jacket and a lightweight fleece
for stops, things are getting cooler
again.
Access
-check our latest
foot
and mouth update, for
links to access maps of the remaining areas with
footpath restrictions, basically Powys, N Yorks and
the Dales and parts of the Lake District, though
the central fells are now part of an open access
zone. Note that a few main tops are still closed,
notably Blencathra, Skiddaw and other fells north
of the A66.
The latest outbreak in
Nortumbria means some closures in the
Hexham/Allendale area, see this
map.
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The National
Forecasts
• Online
Weather's Mountain
Forecast says cloudy
with patchy rain over the weekend, but settling
towards the end, but cold for a time. Temperatures
9 or 10 degrees C on the tops, visibility may hit
some areas on Sunday - see links to individual
forecasts below.
• The
Met Office predicts dry,
sunny spells tomorrow but with rain moving east
across Scotland and Ireland, showers in the
southern half of the Brisith Isle on
Sunday.
• Three-day
pressure analysis
animation from the Met
Office shows, er, that they need to annotate it
more clearly, but there are some fronts wandering
around out there.
• Online
Weather for Saturday dry
in the south, rain spreading into Scotland and
Ireland and cloud spreading into the NW,
Sunday
sunshine and showers in the north, cloudy in the
south.
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Climbing Updates If you
have a television handy, check out page 159 on
ITV's teletext service for their regularly updated
climbing, er, updates including temperatures on the
tops and other more general information.
• Scottish
Avalanche Information
Service is now asleep
until next winter.
• WinterNet
Scotland is a useful
source for firsthand reports for some Scottish hill
areas complete with pictures plus links to web cams
- still some useful stuff, even though it's not
winter.
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