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.
Tuesday'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.
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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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.
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
Tuesday 23rd December 2025
Last updated
Mon 22nd Dec 25 at
4:08PM
Summary for all mountain areas
A fairly extensive sheet of cloud cloaks eastern Scotland southward down the Pennines and east Wales; some mist and haze, fine drizzle on eastern slopes. Cloud more broken on slopes and summits near west coasts, substantially dry here. An easterly wind south Pennines and Wales, strengthening into night.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Fog and haze, some fine drizzle northeast fells
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 15 to 25mph; strengthening around and after dusk with gusts of 30mph or higher.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small during daylight, but some uncomfortable gusty spots around exposed high tops, these more frequent into nighttime.
How Wet?
Damp air over hills
Some fine drizzle where in cloud, most common eastern North Pennines; largely drier toward western dales.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive
Extensive over the high fells most of the day; lower banks likely, including into valley bottoms early in the day. Bases may be higher near the Vale of Eden but the summits remain shrouded.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Some glimpses of weak sunshine around the Vale of Eden, otherwise cloudy. Visibility mostly poor due to fog and haze.
How Cold? (at 700m)
2 or 3C, coolest east; trending lower with time, may reach near freezing on highest summits after nightfall.
And in the valleys
5C most of the day, a few local western dales may reach 6C. Cooling a few degrees eastern dales around and after nightfall.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 24th December 2025
Last updated
Mon 22nd Dec 25 at
4:08PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 25-30mph, strongest winds in the south.
Effect of the wind on you?
Walking becoming strenuous in exposure in southern areas, fairly small to the north. Feeling chilly.
How Wet?
Likely dry
A small chance of a few odd patches of light rain drifting from the east.
Cloud on the hills?
Passing caps on the high tops
Cloud banks will drift over the high tops from time to time, but the fells often clear too.
Chance of cloud free summits?
70%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchy or intermittent sunshine, best on western fells; some high cloud around. Very good visibility.
How Cold? (at 700m)
0 or +1C. Feeling like -10C in strongest direct wind.
And in the valleys
1 or 2C from dawn, rising to 3C, locally warmer in dales in direct sunshine.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 25th December 2025
Last updated
Mon 22nd Dec 25 at
4:08PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 25-30mph, stronger southern Yorks Dales NP with gusts over the summits 35mph or higher.
Effect of the wind on you?
Comfort of walking affected, becoming strenuous in exposure on southern fells. Significant wind chill.
How Wet?
No rain expected
Cloud on the hills?
Morning cloud lifts, clearing many summits
Cloud over the high fells at dawn with some lower banks on eastern slopes, these lifting to largely above 700m, many summits clearing.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Soon rising to 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
A patchwork of cloud and sun, most sunshine lower west fells. Excellent visibility, a slight haze eastern Yorks Dales NP.
How Cold? (at 700m)
-1 or 0C. Feeling as cold as -13C in strongest wind.
And in the valleys
1C from dawn, only rising slightly, locally 3C in sunny south-facing dales.
Planning Outlook
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be dry: easterly winds are dominant with the strongest winds in England and Wales. Cloud may be fairly sheet-like in the east sometimes, though variably more extensive or broken, best of breaks in western areas. Turning colder too, the coldest air in England and Wales with freezing levels reaching as low as 400-600m in east Wales. Staying slightly warmer in northern Scotland with some inversion conditions likely over higher terrain; frost into glens and poorly defined freezing levels. High pressure stays put to the north into the weekend, maintaining dry weather, easterly winds, and most cloud in eastern areas. Temperatures will stay chilly.