Southern Uplands
The Galloway hills eastward to the Lammermuir hills. The Cheviots (including higher hills within the adjacent Northumberland NP).
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.
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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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.
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
Southern Uplands
Tuesday 31st March 2026
Last updated
Mon 30th Mar 26 at
3:50PM
Summary for all mountain areas
A foggy, drizzly start for most, fog to lower slopes in western coastal areas. Fog lifts with time and drizzly rain eases, bursts of sun breaking out east, and perhaps more widely afternoon. Fog and drizzle lingers longest west Scotland and south Pennines. Blustery early, easing for most; a mild feel in England and Wales.
Headline for Southern Uplands
Drizzle and breezy early, an improving trend with sun breaks
How windy? (On the summits)
Westerly, 20 to 25mph, gusty in places around higher tops, reaching up to 30mph, and perhaps these higher speeds more widely early in the day.
Effect of the wind on you?
Breezy, gusty spots starting to affect comfortable walking on exposed terrain, which may be more widespread early in the day. Marked wind chill despite milder air.
How Wet?
Drizzly rain, fading during day
Drizzle and light rain most frequent and widespread during the morning, though patchier small amounts eastwards. Tending to fade, but patchy drizzle and light rain likely continues drifting over the Galloway hills from the west through afternoon.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive early, rising with some breaks
Blanket low cloud across most hills in the morning above 400-500m, lower for a time from the M74 westward. Tending to rise and break with time, best toward east. Banks likely linger above 700m especially in west, these occasionally drifting east, best of breaks late afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10%, rising to 50% afternoon
Sunshine and air clarity?
Glimpses of sun mostly eastern areas, but perhaps bursts of sun more widely later. Poor visibility on much higher terrain at least in morning, becoming good where cloud lifts and breaks.
How Cold? (at 750m)
5 or 6C, locally up to 7C in the east. Feeling like -3C directly in the wind in the morning.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Wednesday 1st April 2026
Last updated
Mon 30th Mar 26 at
3:50PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 25 to 35mph, trending towards the higher end of the range with strong gusts.
Effect of the wind on you?
Increasingly strenuous walking, buffeting gusts around tops and locally downslope to east. Marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Rain develops west later
Scattered drizzly showers, but many hours likely dry. Uncertain timing, but increasing risk into afternoon of patchy rain moving in from northwest, possibly heavier later in west. East Borders and Cheviots stay dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Most persistent west
Covering higher terrain particularly Dumfries and Galloway much of the day above 600-800m, lowering extensively in rain. Higher breaks eastward, perhaps clearing the Cheviot in the morning.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%; 60% for a time in the east
Sunshine and air clarity?
Largely cloudy, local brighter moments eastward, glimpses of sun Borders. Visibility good below cloud, but reduced in rain, may become poor in west.
How Cold? (at 750m)
5 or 6C. Feeling like -5C in exposure to wind.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Last updated
Mon 30th Mar 26 at
3:50PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Variable 15mph or less, though perhaps 20mph easterlies at dawn. Later, turning southerly, 10-20mph, strongest west.
Effect of the wind on you?
Mostly small.
How Wet?
Substantially dry
Most hills dry, but a few spots of drizzle and snow flurries may affect eastern hills at times; the flurries falling to 500-700m, the level rising with time.
Cloud on the hills?
Mostly high terrain, variably lower
Banks of cloud, mostly above 700m early, but a few ragged patches lower too, most cloud in the east to start the day. Bases lift, largely 800m and up, some summit breaks probable, but also with a risk of bases dropping locally lower, mostly south and east.
Chance of cloud free summits?
50%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Bursts of sunshine, probably more extensive for periods. Very good visibility.
How Cold? (at 750m)
-2C at dawn, lifting to 0 or +1C.
Freezing Level
500-600m, lifting to 800m, though locally staying below freezing at lower heights in the west.
Planning Outlook
A drop of temperature is expected across Scotland during Wednesday as a band of rain drifts slowly southwards, turning to heavy upland snow. Atlantic weather patterns and west-southwesterly winds follow behind into the start of the Easter period at least, 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, mixed with some spells of rain - precipitation generally most frequent west and northwest, though bands of heavy rain will sweep east at times. Some windows of drier and brighter conditions, as well as milder days in England and Wales, occasionally milder Scotland too.