Southern Uplands
The Galloway hills eastward to the Lammermuir hills. The Cheviots (including higher hills within the adjacent Northumberland NP).
Monday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
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.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
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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Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
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.
Poor visibility
Murky conditions with areas of fog shrouding the hills, making navigation challenging. Map and compass essential.
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
Monday 22nd December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Strong and gusty SE'ly winds. Rain fairly widely across the Highlands in the morning, easing but leaving patchy drizzle and low cloud shrouding the hills. Low cloud and some drizzly rain for England and Wales, but some breaks for the Lakes, also clearing conditions moving into south Wales.
Headline for Southern Uplands
Blustery, gusty. Early rain, drizzle fading, varied low cloud.
How windy? (On the summits)
East-southeasterly 20-30mph, some stronger gusts over the tops early in day. Tending to ease a little with time.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery at times with marked wind chill where exposed to the wind; strongest gusts may challenge stability in morning.
How Wet?
Rain and drizzle becoming patchy
Widespread rain at and before dawn soon breaks into patches of rain and drizzle, slowest to fade in western areas, becoming substantially dry, but feeling damp where remaining in fog on hills.
Cloud on the hills?
Varied, though tops likely remain in cloud
Fairly extensive banks at varying heights in rain. As rain clears, very disorganised cloud banks, often shrouding high tops with ragged patches lower, some breaks forming mostly north of Beattock summit.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Little or no sun. Visibility poor in rain, improving for a time locally, though a general haze.
How Cold? (at 750m)
3 or 4C, typically warmest in western areas.
Freezing Level
Above the summits
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Tuesday 23rd December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 10 to 25mph, strongest Cheviots.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small, but some uncomfortable gusty spots mainly eastern hills.
How Wet?
Patchy drizzle
Patches of light rain here and there, feeling generally damp with fine drizzle in fog over the hills.
Cloud on the hills?
Fairly extensive
High terrain likely stays shrouded all day, bases often reaching middle slopes with lower patches in rain, locally into valley bottoms.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Little or no sunshine. Variable visibility, sometimes good but fairly hazy, misty in places.
How Cold? (at 750m)
2 to 4C, coolest eastern hills; lowering slightly nearer 0C into night.
Freezing Level
Above the summits; then dropping close to freezing on higher eastern tops into night.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Wednesday 24th December 2025
Last updated
Sun 21st Dec 25 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Easterly 20-25mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small, though feeling uncomfortable in exposure.
How Wet?
Substantially dry
A risk of some odd spots of rain in eastern areas, most hills entirely dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Mostly just high tops, more east
Cloud banks often covering high terrain of the Cheviots and eastern Borders, lowest bases to 600m on eastern aspects. More broken to the west, largely just banks over high tops.
Chance of cloud free summits?
40% east, 60% west
Sunshine and air clarity?
Intermittent sunshine west, more patchy east. Very good visibility, some haze east.
How Cold? (at 750m)
0 or +1C.
Freezing Level
Just touching or above the high summits.
Planning Outlook
Cloud and patchy rain lingers early this week, then a slow change to drier and chiller weather into the Christmas period as high pressure builds to the north. Easterly winds will be dominant, the strongest winds in England and Wales. Cloud may be fairly sheet-like in the east sometimes, though variably more extensive or broken, best northwest. The coldest air will reach England and Wales on the easterly wind with freezing levels reaching as low as 400-600m in Wales, staying slightly warmer in northern Scotland with some inversion conditions likely over higher terrain; frost into glens.