Includes all higher summits in the southern half of Wales: the Bannau Brycheiniog / Brecon Beacons National Park, southern Cambrian Mountains and highest Preseli hills.
Brecon Beacons
Wednesday 24th April 2024
Last updated
Tue 23rd Apr 24 at
4:30PM
Widely dry but cold. Occasional snow flurries or hail on high ground. Highlands: widespread cloud layer on upper slopes at first, highest summits may be above this. Lifting and clearing away from the west coast. Elsewhere: odd patch of cloud but most summits will be cloud free all day.
Fine day with noticeable wind chill
Northerly 15 to 20mph. Becoming northwesterly 10mph, with occasional 15mph Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons NP, from mid-afternoon onwards.
Mostly small effect on walking. Feeling chilly in the wind, but pleasant where sheltered in the sun.
Occasional showers
One or two brief showers, a flurry of soft hail or snow.
Little if any
Brief patches near some higher tops around local showers.
90%
Broken cloud and sun. Visibility excellent.
1C rising to 4C. Wind chill feels like -5C on tops in morning, still sub-zero in afternoon.
Frost in sheltered valleys and some upper cols at first. Otherwise above freezing to higher tops.
Brecon Beacons
Thursday 25th April 2024
Last updated
Tue 23rd Apr 24 at
4:30PM
West to northwesterly, 15 to 25mph.
Fairly small effect on walking, but continued notable wind chill on hills.
Showers developing
A few showers near to coasts in the morning, then forming more widely inland with time, possible hail, plus snow flurries over higher terrain.
Mostly above hills
Fragments of cloud forming locally around some slopes in the morning, but soon lifting above the tops.
80%
Variable cloud and sun, best in morning. Visibility excellent.
3 to 5C. Wind chill feeling like -4C.
Near freezing sheltered higher areas and valleys at first. Otherwise above freezing to tops.
Brecon Beacons
Friday 26th April 2024
Last updated
Tue 23rd Apr 24 at
4:30PM
Light winds, 5 to perhaps 15mph. Direction changing through the day.
Negligible or small.
Mostly dry
Risk of occasional drizzle or light shower, particularly Cambrian Mountains.
Lifting above most tops
Patches of cloud on higher slopes, especially during and after showers. Bases rising in the afternoon..
70%
Widespread sunshine in morning become patchy as clouds form in the afternoon. Good visibility; hazy near south coast.
2C rising towards 5C. Feeling as cold as -5C in the wind at times.
Above the summits.
Remaining cold, especially northern England and Scotland. Initially winds remaining light but showers becoming more likely, falling as snow on high ground. Small but active low bringing wind and precipitation to England and Wales on Saturday and across UK on Sunday. Remaining showery into the early part of next week.