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
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.
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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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.
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
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
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 Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Breezy and drizzly early, improving in the east and north
How windy? (On the summits)
In the morning, a gusty northwesterly, 25-30mph, sometimes higher speeds on eastern fells. From noon, starting to ease and shift westerly, 15-20mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery on exposed fells, particularly in the east in the morning where gusts will pose occasional balance challenges; a notable wind chill too. Effects will ease.
How Wet?
Drizzly rain, fading during day
Drizzle and light rain most frequent and widespread over the high fells during the morning; patchier small amounts eastwards. Tending to fade to patchy drizzle confined to western Dales into afternoon, and often dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive, rising with some breaks, best east and north
Blanket low cloud across most fells in the morning above 400-500m, lower for a time in western areas. Tending to rise and break with time, best toward east and N Pennines, where summits breaks are likely. Banks likely linger above 600-700m Three Peaks area.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10%, rising to 40% afternoon, 60% N Pennines
Sunshine and air clarity?
Glimpses of sun mostly eastern areas and northern areas, longer bursts of sunshine with time. Poor visibility on much higher terrain at least in morning, becoming good where cloud lifts and breaks.
How Cold? (at 700m)
6 or 7C from dawn, rising to widely 7C, eastern fells likely up to 8C. Feeling like -2C direct in the wind in the morning.
And in the valleys
5C from dawn, rising to 12C afternoon, locally warmer eastern dales.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 1st April 2026
Last updated
Mon 30th Mar 26 at
3:50PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly 20 to 30mph, tending to strengthen, to gusty 35mph N Pennines by evening.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery, buffeting gusts develop around higher tops, local downslope gusts to east. Marked wind chill.
How Wet?
Some light patchy rain west
Scattered drizzly showers, mostly just western fells, many hours largely dry. Late in the day, increasing risk of patchy rain moving in from northwest.
Cloud on the hills?
Mostly western and higher tops
Varied cloud, most persistent over western tops around Three Peaks, base 600m for periods. Mostly above 600-700m north and eastern Pennine areas, breaks off summits likely.
Chance of cloud free summits?
50%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Patchy sunshine breaking out here and there, perhaps more frequently for a time afternoon. Visibility good below cloud, but reduced around patchy rain.
How Cold? (at 700m)
5 or 6C. Feeling like to -5C in exposure high tops.
And in the valleys
6C from dawn, rising to 12C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 2nd April 2026
Last updated
Mon 30th Mar 26 at
3:50PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Highly variable: E'ly 15-25mph early, easing, variable 15mph or less several hours, reorienting west later.
Effect of the wind on you?
Mostly small, some nuisance wind on exposed terrain early and late in the day.
How Wet?
Spotty drizzly rain
Spots of drizzly rain here and there, the greatest chance on eastern hills. Most or all fells will have dry periods.
Cloud on the hills?
Early fog lifts to clear the summits
A fairly extensive layer of cloud on high terrain in the morning, lowest bases on eastern fells. After sunrise, the cloud lifting likely clearing the summits by afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Rising to 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sun increasingly breaking out for extended periods. Very good visibility.
How Cold? (at 700m)
-1 or 0C at dawn, lifting to +2C.
And in the valleys
Around +1C at dawn, though several dales will likely see frosts. Lifting to 6C.
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.