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.
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 31st December 2025
Last updated
Tue 30th Dec 25 at
4:28PM
Much terrain frozen, frost into valleys and glens in the morning, all day out of sunlight, but temperature and freezing level tending to lift toward 800m from west. Showery rain and hill snow moving into W-NW Scotland. Wind strengthening, becoming gales over tops in Scotland during day, then N England after dark.
Strengthening wind. Cloud moving in, largely dry day.
Northwesterly backing westerly 15 to 25mph, increasing to 25 to 35mph through the day, 40mph onto tops into evening and night.
Be prepared for increasingly blustery conditions with considerable wind chill and buffeting.
Precipitation unlikely until late
Most likely all daylight dry. After dark, some showers or snow flurries on higher slopes, more persistent toward and beyond midnight.
Clear start, low cloud later from west
Fells starting clear, but increasingly low cloud will move in from the west to cover upper slopes or tops towards and into the afternoon, mostly above 700-800m. Eastern Dales hills stay clear.
80%, lowering to 50% by dusk.
Bright start with sun through high cloud, but cloud building from west. Visibility mostly very good or excellent.
Around -1C. Feeling closer to -8C in the strongest winds afternoon.
Widely sub-zero at dawn, hard frost in valleys; lifting to 2 or 3C during afternoon, 4C by evening.
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 1st January 2026
Last updated
Tue 30th Dec 25 at
4:28PM
Northwesterly 30 to 40mph, strongest higher North Pennines.
Strenuous walking, frequent buffeting in exposure higher up. Significant wind chill.
Risk early showers
Possible showers early morning, snow flurries above 500m. Likely to fade to be often dry.
Soon little if any
Patches grazing higher slopes, mostly early in day, then largely above tops.
80%
Patchwork of sunshine. Visibility very good.
0 or -1C. Wind chill feeling like -10 to -13C.
4 or 5C, little change from night into day, but then dropping to freezing onward into evening.
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 2nd January 2026
Last updated
Tue 30th Dec 25 at
4:28PM
North-northwesterly 25 to 35mph, at times 40mph higher North Pennines.
Significant wind chill over the fells. Strenuous walking in exposure on higher terrain.
Precipitation unlikely
Mostly little
Patches clipping high tops occasionally, mainly in north, but mostly clear fells.
80%
Mostly sunny. Visibility excellent.
-4C. Wind chill feeling like -15C on tops.
Near or just below 0C from dawn, rising to max 2C, then rapidly dropping below freezing into evening-night.
Significantly cold wintry conditions into the start of January. Air temperature well below freezing on high terrain, plus low minima into many glens and valleys with sustained hard frost. Strong northerly winds later this week giving severe wind chill. Frequent and heavy snow showers moving into northern areas and running down coastal extremities with significant accumulations. Elsewhere, lots of dry and sunny weather, although occasional organised bands of snow will feed south at times in the Arctic airflow. Staying cold into next week with scope for snowfalls more widely.