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.
Friday'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.
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.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
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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.
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.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 1st May 2026
Last updated
Thu 30th Apr 26 at
3:09PM
Summary for all mountain areas
As pressure falls slowly, so extensive high level cloud and bursts of rain (perhaps thundery in places later in day) will spread east - although the precise locations of the showery rain remains uncertain. Patches of low cloud, mainly near Irish Sea coasts will accompany the rain.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Bursts of rain, possibly heavy late in day. Fairly light wind.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly, 10 to 15mph. Will increase to 20mph toward evening.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small.
How Wet?
Risk burst of rain; developing more widely toward evening. Small risk lightning.
Extensively dry morning before a few bursts of rain spread east. By mid or late afternoon, scattered heavy bursts with small risk thunder. In evening the rain may set in for an hour or so.
Cloud on the hills?
Very little before forming in rain evening
Patches of fog some valleys for a few hours after dawn. Otherwise the hills cloud free either throughout daylight or until evening in and after rain, when some slopes become foggy, locally from forest canopies up.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Almost certain until early evening, then 60%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine, becoming weak through a veil of high cloud, which will probably extend eastward. Visibility good or very good, but some haze.
How Cold? (at 700m)
10C, rising to 15C afternoon.
And in the valleys
5C at dawn, rising toward 21C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Saturday 2nd May 2026
Last updated
Thu 30th Apr 26 at
3:09PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Generally southwesterly; 15 or perhaps 20mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Small
How Wet?
Risk occasional rain
Largely or perhaps completely dry. However, risk pockets of drizzle in morning western dales in Yorkshire and bursts of showery rain later in day.
Cloud on the hills?
Very extensive from dawn; will gradually lift although may persist higher tops.
Confidence in detail low: Particularly western Yorkshire dales cloud may through morning be below 300m and persist above 450 to 600m most or all day. Elsewhere, cloud likely to rise to toward or above 700m, perhaps all clearing.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30% rising through day o 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine gradually coming through (perhaps only slowly western Yorkshire dales) with mostly very good visibility after a dull and misty start.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8C.
And in the valleys
16 to 18C in the afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Sunday 3rd May 2026
Last updated
Thu 30th Apr 26 at
3:09PM
How windy? (On the summits)
North to northeasterly between 20 and possibly 35mph (low confidence at this stage).
Effect of the wind on you?
Expect considerable wind chill, and even on some lower slopes significant buffeting in gusty wind.
How Wet?
Probably raining most of daylight
A broad band of rain may well drift only slowly northwards or come to a halt, bringing many hours of steady rain.
Cloud on the hills?
Blanket of fog throughout or most of day
The hills may be free of cloud ahead of the rain, possibly for several hours N Pennines. But in rain, fog enveloping the hills, sometimes from lower slopes, particularly eastern dales.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine unlikely. Visibility frequently poor in rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
5C: may well feel as cold as minus 5C directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
Between 9 and 11C.
Planning Outlook
Less settled from the weekend onwards. Rain will be more frequent although apart from on Saturday night and Sunday (when a band of rain will move north about as far as central Scotland - the detail presently very uncertain) total rainfall will remain fairly small. Temperature levels will drop markedly, particularly on the Scottish Highlands, where overnight and mornings higher slopes will be below freezing point on Scottish Highlands - with hail and snow flurries. Overnight frosts may extend as far south as Wales again.