Southern Uplands
The Galloway hills eastward to the Lammermuir hills. The Cheviots (including higher hills within the adjacent Northumberland NP).
Today's Forecast
Light wind, negligible impact
Little wind or walking hardly affected by the wind, but feeling chilly if exposed on tops. 10-15mph or less.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
Clear
Excellent or superb visibility, no navigation issues.
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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Light wind, negligible impact
Little wind or walking hardly affected by the wind, but feeling chilly if exposed on tops. 10-15mph or less.
Patchwork of cloud and sun
Dry most or all day. A mix of cloud and sunshine. Occasional cloud banks drifting over higher slopes, lifting above the tops.
Clear
Excellent or superb visibility, no navigation issues.
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
Southern Uplands
Sunday 18th October 2026
Last updated
Sat 17th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
Summary for all mountain areas
A fine but cool day with sunshine and mountains largely free of cloud, fragments on some slopes and early mist on low terrain. Cloud banks drift onto Skye more often. Light winds for much of Scotland, a fresher northeasterly breeze for England and Wales, which brings odd light showers.
Headline for Southern Uplands
Chilly, light breeze. Largely dry, sunshine, mostly clear hills.
How windy? (On the summits)
Variable direction around 10mph and often less, becoming easterly 10-15mph Cheviots.
Effect of the wind on you?
Small, but feeling chilly in any breeze.
How Wet?
Brief showers east, otherwise dry
A few light showers drifting onto the Cheviots/Lothians from the North Sea, but light in nature and hills further west likely entirely dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Little or none
Mist in sheltered valleys from dawn will soon lift and begin to dissipate to clear the hills. Some cloud patches drifting over high Cheviots during afternoon into evening.
Chance of cloud free summits?
90%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Mostly sunny, some high cloud comes and goes around the Cheviot/Lothians. Very good visibility, a little haze towards the Central Belt to start.
How Cold? (at 750m)
3C rising to 5C, little change with height early in the day. Feeling like 0 to -3C in breeze.
Freezing Level
Above the summits, but frosts likely in sheltered valleys from overnight into early morning, soon thawing.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Monday 19th October 2026
Last updated
Sat 17th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
East-southeasterly 15 to 25mph, speed tending to rise, later in day to 30mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Increasingly blustery, starting to affect comfortable walking and feeling chilly.
How Wet?
Some rain mostly east
Light rain and drizzle mostly toward Borders and Cheviots, may be fairly persistent over a few hours. Patchier toward the M74, largely dry further westwards.
Cloud on the hills?
Most persistent east
A sheet of cloud likely to affect many hills above 600-700m, most persistent in the east in the morning, some lower banks. Patchier westwards. Cloud may tend to rise and break more widely in afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Largely cloudy, though a little sun may break through in western areas where visibility often good, but reduced where damp.
How Cold? (at 750m)
6C, little change all day. Feeling like -5C in the wind.
Freezing Level
Frost in some valleys early morning, mainly western areas. Otherwise above the summits.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Tuesday 20th October 2026
Last updated
Sat 17th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southeasterly 20 to 30mph, gusty in places around some high tops.
Effect of the wind on you?
Starting to affect ease of walking on exposed terrain with marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Rain and drizzle
Generally damp all day, some steadier light rain for periods, may become more persistent rain with time.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive
Low cloud blanketing most hills in fog from lower elevations upward. Local higher bases and some breaks above 600m toward northwest of Galloway.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Overcast, dull and misty from many lower slopes upward.
How Cold? (at 750m)
5 to 7C, coolest east, little change all day. Feeling like 0 to -3C in the wind.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Planning Outlook
The new week starts with some rain and wind in Wales and south Pennines, staying drier for much of Scotland on Monday, but with strengthening southeasterly wind, cloud increasingly shrouding all hills and becoming widely damp onward into Tuesday, blanket low cloud shrouding hills to some lower elevations. A more unsettled pattern returns widely as the week goes on as winds return to Atlantic southwesterlies. A few windows of brighter weather in eastern areas, but periods of strong wind and heavy rain into late week and next weekend as a series of fronts and low pressure systems sweep in from the southwest, risk of gales becoming severe at times on higher mountain terrain.