Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
The entire Yorkshire Dales National Park and North Pennines AONB, including the Three Peaks and Cross Fell, plus Howgills, also south to Forest of Bowland.
Wednesday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Patchy rain or drizzle
Rain on and off, or generally drizzly - total amounts small, but may be persistently damp, especially where hills are shrouded in cloud.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
Chilly
Air temperature typically 0 to 5C on higher summits. Feeling distinctly chilly on tops when stationary or where exposed to wind. Take appropriate layers.
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Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Patchy rain or drizzle
Rain on and off, or generally drizzly - total amounts small, but may be persistently damp, especially where hills are shrouded in cloud.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
Chilly
Air temperature typically 0 to 5C on higher summits. Feeling distinctly chilly on tops when stationary or where exposed to wind. Take appropriate layers.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 28th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Still windy - though less so than on Tuesday. Generally showery, although over N England at first, and occasionally through the morning in Scotland, the rain frequent. Higher mountains extensively foggy.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Upland wind near gale on highest tops; occasional rain easing.
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly 30mph, but 35mph on highest summits, particularly N Pennines. Will trend towards lower speeds through daylight.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous walking from dawn, balance a challenge where exposed with considerable wind chill; effects slowly lessening.
How Wet?
Rain at first, then well scattered showers
Rain on and off over a few hours after dawn, mainly more western hills. Then improving: by midday only a brief shower here and there.
Cloud on the hills?
Persistently fog across higher areas
Cloud will shroud the mountains all day, at times in rain below 300m western Yorkshire dales and 500m elsewhere. Some improvement afternoon when the cloud base will range between 450 and 750m, highest eastern dales and N Pennines.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10% morning and highest summits all day, otherwise rising to 60% afternoon
Sunshine and air clarity?
Bursts of sun, mainly eastern dales and N Pennines, and good visibility, although a haze, after a widely dull misty start.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8C - rising marginally through daylight. Will feel below freezing point where exposed.
And in the valleys
Will rise to 10 to 13C, warmest more eastern valleys.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 29th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly 20 to on higher areas 30mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Likely to impede ease of walking on higher areas and give marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Risk fine drizzle in cloud.
Largely or completely dry, but perhaps fine drizzle in cloud.
Cloud on the hills?
Very extensive morning, in places from valleys up. Will slowly tend to clear.
Morning: extensive fog from some valleys up and widely below 300m, though in places breaks to higher tops. Afternoon: Very mixed. Some, perhaps most summits may clear at least temporarily, whilst other areas, particularly south lakes continue foggy.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Widely dull and misty - patches of fog from some valleys upward morning. Will slowly improve as patches of sun come through (mainly N Pennines) and visibility improves, though a haze.
How Cold? (at 700m)
7C.
And in the valleys
8 to 10C, although locally 12C.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 30th October 2026
Last updated
Tue 27th Oct 26 at
12:12PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly 25 to perhaps on higher tops 35mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Expect walking to be impeded by the wind, and wind chill considerable where exposed on highest summits.
How Wet?
Risk of isolated drizzly
Extensively or completely dry, although risk fine drizzle where foggy in places in morning.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive after dawn, but lifting to or above higher summits
There may well be extensive fog from dawn, from lower slopes up, particularly more eastern dales. Slowly the fog will become confined to higher slopes, by afternoon, mostly above 700m.
Chance of cloud free summits?
70% by afternoon
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sunshine coming through as patches of fog lift. Hazy.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8C
And in the valleys
11 to locally 14C in afternoon.
Planning Outlook
A hint of a change as pressure builds across Britain from the coming weekend as the present stormy weather gradually subsides. On Friday and into the weekend, a final front could well become almost stationary for a day or so before fizzling out - still uncertainty as to its position (thus its footprint of rain and low cloud) in the otherwise improving picture as it becomes fine with light wind on the hills and overnight frost in lowland and upland valleys.