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.
Saturday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Frequent or persistent rain
Steady rain fairly persistent, occasionally heavy, rather wet underfoot.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
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.
Frequent or persistent rain
Steady rain fairly persistent, occasionally heavy, rather wet underfoot.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
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
Saturday 6th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Patchy rain toward the south of the Highlands, and tends to become more persistent west coasts. Varied low cloud, higher breaks generally north. A swathe of rain and low cloud northern England and southern Scotland. Clusters of showery rain for Wales, heavy bursts with local thunder. Wind speeds varying.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Windy start, easing. Rain and low cloud, later showers.
How windy? (On the summits)
South-southeasterly 25 to 40mph early morning, but easing into early afternoon 15-25mph, or less by later afternoon. Then turning southwesterly into evening, increasing through dusk, to 25-35mph into night.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery morning, feeling cool and may affect comfortable walking on tops for a time, but lessening to then become fairly small until late evening.
How Wet?
Rain most persistent south, some heavier bursts form
Rain most persistent Yorks Dales NP from early morning for several hours, patchier north at first, but some steady rain mixed with drizzle extends to all areas. Through middle of day, rain breaking up, but southern areas remain often drizzly. Further pulses of showery rain widely later afternoon drifting north into evening, locally heavier.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive for periods
Varied cloud banks mostly southwestern areas at first, but soon more widely, filling in and lowering to shroud most hills to mid-slopes in rain; some more broken periods with higher bases into afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Widely overcast, brief brighter moments afternoon. Visibility very good where dry, but reducing in rain, poor at times in southwest.
How Cold? (at 700m)
6C rising to 9C afternoon, then dropping again into night. Feeling near/below freezing in the wind.
And in the valleys
9C at dawn, rising to 14 or 15C afternoon, though perhaps slightly less.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Sunday 7th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 25-35mph, gusty over tops particularly early. Deteriorating, greatest risk north, sustained speeds 35-40mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Ease of walking always impacted, increasingly strenuous over the tops with notable wind chill, strongest effects north.
How Wet?
Some light rain, may deteriorate
Patchy light rain drifting onto western fells from time to time, many dry windows in the morning. A risk of more rain N Pennines later, and more frequent patches further south late in the day.
Cloud on the hills?
Caps may linger on northern tops
May be fairly extensive from 500m up early hours, lowest bases from Tebay southward. Rising with time, likely clearing Yorks Dales NP summits, and maybe N Pennines too, but caps may just graze Cross Fell group at times.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Rising to 70%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine in the morning is soon weakened by high cloud, increasingly so through the day. Very good visibility, but some haze western dales.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8 or 9C rising to 11C. Feeling near freezing in strongest wind.
And in the valleys
7C at dawn, rising to 16C.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Monday 8th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 15 to 25mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small effect on walking, but feeling blustery and a noticeable chill on exposed high terrain.
How Wet?
Rain then showers
A band of rain clears eastward from dawn into early morning, briefly heavy. Then a scattering of showers, risk some heavier later in day.
Cloud on the hills?
Breaks to tops
Varied cloud banks mostly western hills and higher tops in morning, lifting higher up with breaks away from showers.
Chance of cloud free summits?
50%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sun, mainly eastern hills. Visibility good away from showers and below cloud.
How Cold? (at 700m)
6 or 7C. Feeling below freezing directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
10C at dawn, rising to 14C afternoon, but always a little cooler in rain.
Planning Outlook
Generally unsettled next week - showers affect most hills Monday and Tuesday, lowest cloud and most persistent rain along western slopes, but with some breaks as well with sunshine. Risk of a deeper area of lower pressure from Wednesday or later bringing widespread strong winds, probably gales over many summits, with prolonged heavy rain. Temperatures trending milder again into next weekend, pressure may begin to rise in the south to give drier weather more widely with time.