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.
Today's Forecast
Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
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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Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
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 10th June 2026
Last updated
Tue 9th Jun 26 at
4:00PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Showery westerlies, scattered bursts of rain moving eastward across the country, locally heavy with a chance of thunder, mainly eastern areas by afternoon. Improving to drier and brighter conditions for western England and Wales with time. Breezes tending to freshen. Feeling rather cool.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Showery, some heavy, easing from west. Breeze increasing.
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly 15 to 20mph, tending to rise during afternoon, later 25-30mph over higher fells into evening.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small in morning, more noticeably blustery with time, marked wind chill where exposed to the strongest breeze.
How Wet?
Showers moving east, risk thunder
Showers initially western hills. These develop more widely eastward from mid morning. By afternoon, widely showery, some heavy; hail and thunder, later mainly toward east. Fading from west to leave odd light showers in evening.
Cloud on the hills?
Patches over tops in rain
Varied bases. At first, banks over western tops, elsewhere mostly clear. As showers develop widely, expect patches or banks to form at times over the tops.
Chance of cloud free summits?
60%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Variable cloud and patchy sun, best sun early in day eastern dales. Visibility mostly good, but poor in showers.
How Cold? (at 700m)
4C lifting to 6C. Feeling just below freezing in the stronger breeze, later near -5C highest tops.
And in the valleys
7C at dawn, lifting to highs of 13 or 14C afternoon, but dropping a few degrees in showers.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 11th June 2026
Last updated
Tue 9th Jun 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly turning west-southwesterly later, 20 to 30mph, risk gusts reaching 40mph later in day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Varied, at times fairly small, but risk feeling increasingly blustery over high terrain with noticeable wind chill.
How Wet?
Persistent rain
Rain arriving from dawn in west, some steadier heavier falls for periods through the morning. Rain breaks up in afternoon, but still drizzly rain on and off.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive low cloud
Soon blanket low cloud across the fells, to lower slopes western dales, fairly extensive above 600m.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Overcast and dull, murky southwest. Poor visibility much of day in rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
5C rising to 9C. Feeling like 0 to -3C directly in wind.
And in the valleys
9C at dawn rising to 13C afternoon, or slightly milder toward evening.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 12th June 2026
Last updated
Tue 9th Jun 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly, 25 to 35mph, in places 40mph over higher Pennines.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous walking where exposed over high terrain, uncomfortable buffeting gusts in places. Marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Drizzly rain mostly west
Drizzly showers merging into more frequent light rain at times western areas. Patchier eastwards, more often dry some eastern dales.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive, lowest west
Persistent across most or all fells, often foggy to 300-500m western Yorks Dales up to Tebay. Cloud base mostly above 600m north from Kirkby Stephen and eastern dales, local breaks possible mainly Teesdale area.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Largely cloudy, dull in west. Visibility reduced around rain in west, misty over hills; better below cloud toward east.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8C rising to 11C afternoon. Feeling near 0C where exposed to wind.
And in the valleys
11C at dawn, rising to 17C afternoon.
Planning Outlook
Damp westerly breezes on Friday will cloak most mountains in cloud and some drizzle, better conditions eastwards. Cool and strong westerlies persist in Scotland on Saturday, then warmer with lighter winds by Sunday. Some patchy rain remaining in west and northwest Scotland over the weekend. Pressure tends to rise from the south this weekend, bringing warmer air and drier conditions to England & Wales, although west coast mountains may hold onto cloud. Into next week, a mixed southwesterly pattern remains, windy at times with periods of rain, drizzle and low cloud most persistent in the west. Warmest in England and Wales, but cooler westerly air likely returns at times mid-late week. Higher pressure then shows more signs of expanding over the country by late next week bringing improving conditions.