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.
Monday's Forecast
Gale force, walking arduous
Considerable buffeting, walking into the wind will be strenuous on exposed terrain, stronger gusts may knock you off your feet. 40 to 55mph.
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.
Hazy, some fog banks
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Visibility reduced around cloud banks, hazier on some lower slopes. Locally some improvements possible out of cloud.
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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Gale force, walking arduous
Considerable buffeting, walking into the wind will be strenuous on exposed terrain, stronger gusts may knock you off your feet. 40 to 55mph.
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.
Hazy, some fog banks
Visibility reduced around cloud banks, hazier on some lower slopes. Locally some improvements possible out of cloud.
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
Monday 12th January 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Jan 26 at
1:43PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Extensive upland gales, although storm force at first N Scotland. Bands of showers, of hail, and snow higher areas, will merge to give periods of almost constant precipitation on many western mountains. Small risk thunder. Driest conditions will be on easternmost mountains and S Wales.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Gale force upland wind. Rain (hail and snow higher tops); fog.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 35 to 45mph, strongest tops above 650m. Marginal drop in speed through day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Walking widely difficult on higher areas, frequent buffeting even lower elevations. Significant wind chill.
How Wet?
Frequent showers; hail, snow higher tops, small risk lightning
Frequent, sometimes near constant showery heavy rain, with hail and small risk thunder. Wet snow highest fells.
Cloud on the hills?
Mostly higher tops
Covering higher fells above 600m, and in rain cloud base sometime below 300 or 400m - mainly western dales in Yorkshire. A few breaks above 750m N Pennines.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Glimpses of sun mostly eastern dales. Slight haze, visibility reduced to poor in rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
4C. Will feel as cold as -10C where exposed to the wind.
And in the valleys
Mild from dawn, small variation night and day, typically 9C.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Tuesday 13th January 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Jan 26 at
1:43PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Forecast confidence remains low: Generally southerly 30 to 40mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Walking on higher areas may well be arduous most or all day and wind chill considerable.
How Wet?
Rain may become incessant
Rain may well fall most or all day.
Cloud on the hills?
Blanket of low cloud probable
Cloud may well fill in or have filled in across the hills, and persist all day.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine not expected. Widely misty or murky in rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
5C
And in the valleys
Between 6 and 8C
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 14th January 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Jan 26 at
1:43PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West backing southerly around 25mph before later in day possibly strengthening toward 40mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
May well be fairly small most or all day, but risk that walking.becomes increasingly arduous and wind chill significant by dusk.
How Wet?
Risk of snow an hail showers
Occasional showers giving hail and snow, although rain lowest slopes. Threat precipitation setting in late in day.
Cloud on the hills?
Probably remaining extensive on most or all higher tops
Cloud sometimes forming below 450m western dales in Yorkshire, but cloud base generally rising to 600 to 750m - possibly breaking off higher summits.
Chance of cloud free summits?
50%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sunshine, mainly away from western dales in Yorkshire. Visibility often very good, but poor in snow.
How Cold? (at 700m)
-1C
And in the valleys
Will reach around 5C.
Planning Outlook
High rainfall and intermittently windy across most mountains over the next week or more as a series of Atlantic lows cross Britain. With uncertainty in the tracks of some lows, Tuesday's forecast remains very uncertain - but by Wednesday a transient weak ridge of high pressure will bring a brief improvement. Higher summits sometimes below freezing point S Scotland southwards: snow may accumulate on highest summits. Mostly below freezing Scottish Highlands enabling snow to accumulate widely.