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
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
Cool to mild
Air temperature 5 to 10C on higher terrain. Comfortable temperatures on lower terrain, but feeling chilly if exposed to wind higher up, especially if stationary. Pack extra 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.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
Cool to mild
Air temperature 5 to 10C on higher terrain. Comfortable temperatures on lower terrain, but feeling chilly if exposed to wind higher up, especially if stationary. Pack extra layers.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 1st April 2026
Last updated
Tue 31st Mar 26 at
4:22PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Rain spreads across Scottish Highlands from the northwest, turning to snow as temperature sharply drops. Strong, variable wind here with gale-force gusts. Early hill cloud England and Wales lifts, best breaks east for some sun glimpses. Patchy rain into Snowdonia, Lakeland, and N Pennines late in the day.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Increasingly windy north; some sun breaks, best east
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly 20 to 30mph, tending to strengthen, to gusty 40mph N Pennines by evening.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery, buffeting gusts develop around higher tops, local downslope gusts to east. Later in the day, walking becomes arduous over the high exposed tops in the north. Marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Some light patchy rain west
Scattered drizzly showers, mostly just western fells, many hours largely dry. Late in the day, increasing risk of patchy rain moving in from northwest, heavier bursts of rain after nightfall.
Cloud on the hills?
Mostly western and higher tops
Varied cloud, most persistent over western tops around Three Peaks, base 600m for periods. Mostly above 600-700m north and eastern Pennine areas, breaks off summits likely.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Rising to 60%, though 40% Three Peaks
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchy sunshine breaking out here and there, perhaps more frequently for a time afternoon, then turning overcast late in the day. Often good visibility, occasionally diminished during rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
5 or 6C, mildest around and north of Teesdale, may reach 7C here. A sharp temperature drop from the north evening into night, to below freezing overnight. Feeling like to -5C in exposure high tops.
And in the valleys
6C from dawn, locally cooler eastern valleys. rising to 11C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Last updated
Tue 31st Mar 26 at
4:22PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Variable: N'ly 10-20 mph early, easing, variable 10mph or less several hours, reorienting SW'ly later, up to 25mph late.
Effect of the wind on you?
Mostly small, some nuisance wind on exposed terrain early and late in the day.
How Wet?
Likely dry
Small chance of odd spots of drizzly rain on eastern fells, but likely entirely dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Early fog lifts to clear the summits
A fairly extensive layer of cloud on high terrain in the morning, lowest bases on eastern fells. After sunrise, the cloud lifting likely clearing the summits by afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Rising to 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sun increasingly breaking out for extended periods. Very good visibility.
How Cold? (at 700m)
-1C at dawn, lifting to +2C.
And in the valleys
0 or +1C at dawn, greatest chance of frosts in N Pennines, though some in Yorks Dales NP too. Lifting to 6C, 7C southern dales.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 3rd April 2026
Last updated
Tue 31st Mar 26 at
4:22PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 30-45mph, powerful gusts, including downslope to the east, and may strengthen further.
Effect of the wind on you?
Conditions often arduous in exposure, feeling chilly despite mild temperatures, mobility may become challenging later.
How Wet?
Periods of rain
Rain will come and go across the fells, generally patchy in nature, though may set in for periods on western fells. Some chance of a drier window for a few hours.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive, some breaks
During periods of rain, cloud will shroud the fells widely to middle slopes, down to lower slopes on western aspects. Breaks up towards 700m towards Teesdale during cessations in the rain, and some chance of higher breaks for a few hours.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Often overcast, but a few brighter windows with glimpses of sun are possible. Mixed visibility, often poor in rain (particularly west), but occasionally good.
How Cold? (at 700m)
3 or 4C early, lifting, up to 7C. May lower a degree into evening. Feeling like -7 to -10C in direct wind.
And in the valleys
2 or 3C at dawn, lifting up to 11 or 12C.
Planning Outlook
A brief lull in unsettled weather on Thursday with mostly dry, sunny conditions and lighter wind. Atlantic weather patterns and west-southwesterly winds follow behind on Friday and into the Easter weekend, but day-to-day detail is uncertain. Temperature and wind will be variable, periods of gales and possibly often cold over the mountains with snow and hail showers at times to lower elevations at least in Scotland, sometimes more widely. Precipitation generally most frequent west and northwest, though bands of heavy rain will sweep east at times. Some brief windows of drier and brighter conditions, as well as milder days in England and Wales, occasionally milder Scotland too, but soon followed by more Atlantic low pressure.