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.
Thursday's Forecast
Windy, walking impeded
Blustery conditions enough to give buffeting on higher terrain or affect balance on exposed ridges. 25 to 40mph.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
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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.
Sunshine and showers
A good amount of dry and bright weather, but scattered bursts of rain, some may be locally heavy.
Warm
Comfortable temperatures on the hills, 10 to 15C on tops, feeling pleasantly warm especially on lower ground. Beware of feeling cooler if exposed to wind on higher terrain.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Thursday 2nd July 2026
Last updated
Wed 1st Jul 26 at
4:04PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Gales early, severe over tops of north England and Scotland. Wind gradually eases, though staying blustery north. Showers, drizzle, and low cloud early, particularly west hills. England, Wales, and east Scotland largely dry afternoon, few cloud caps over high tops; cloud and drizzle linger in west Scotland.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Gales ease with time; some morning showers and drizzle
How windy? (On the summits)
West-northwesterly, 55-65mph dawn-early morning, lessening to 35-45mph around midday/afternoon, further easing to finish near 20-25mph, though some stronger gusts likely over the high tops.
Effect of the wind on you?
Severe conditions from overnight and still difficult well into daytime, walking and balance challenging with significant wind chill. Slowly improving, locally fairly small effects later but staying blustery on high tops.
How Wet?
Showers fade for a dry afternoon
Overnight rain clears from dawn to leave a few hours of showers and drizzle, the showers soonest clearing in the north. By noon, the fells should be dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Lifting and clearing most tops
Covering high terrain fairly widely from dawn, lowest bases west slopes where as low as 400-500m. Soon mostly confined to highest tops and gradually tending to thin and break above most hills, only odd patches linger in the west.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30% rising to 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sun breaking through, most often eastern lower slopes, particularly later in the day. Visibility very good below cloud, some haze toward westernmost Yorks Dales.
How Cold? (at 700m)
8C rising to 12C afternoon. Directly in the stronger winds feeling like -5C on tops, nearer 0 to +3C later.
And in the valleys
12C at dawn, rising to 17C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Friday 3rd July 2026
Last updated
Wed 1st Jul 26 at
4:04PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly 20 to 30mph, speeds likely to fluctuate during the day, and gusting stronger over high terrain at times.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery over the fells, affecting comfortable walking on exposed higher areas, some buffeting gusts.
How Wet?
Little rain expected
Occasional drizzle mainly western hills, chance of some light rain at times, but small amounts and possibly substantially dry.
Cloud on the hills?
Sometimes covering higher slopes
Banks of cloud over higher slopes, most common toward the west above 600-700m, but sometimes more broken, clearing most often eastern hills, and later more widely clear.
Chance of cloud free summits?
40%, to 60% further east, later 80%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Glimpses of sun through high cloud, more frequent eastern dales. Visibility good out of cloud, very good east.
How Cold? (at 700m)
10C rising to 13C afternoon. Feeling like 2 to 5C directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
12C at dawn, rising to 19C afternoon.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Saturday 4th July 2026
Last updated
Wed 1st Jul 26 at
4:04PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly, 25 to 40mph, may fluctuate, more often stronger higher N Pennines, gusting 45mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Affecting comfortable walking on higher exposed terrain, more frequent buffeting for periods highest areas, strenuous north.
How Wet?
Occasional drizzle
Small amounts in total, but some drizzle in the air for periods, most frequent over western side of Pennines and Yorks Dales later in the day.
Cloud on the hills?
Most persistent western tops
Covering higher slopes toward the west much of the day, risk of blanket cloud to mid slopes areas south from Tebay. Mostly above 600m north and eastern Pennines, may occasionally lower here too.
Chance of cloud free summits?
20% Three Peaks, to 40% north/east.
Sunshine and air clarity?
Largely cloudy, dull western areas, mistier over hills in western Dales. Better visibility below cloud east and northwards.
How Cold? (at 700m)
11 or 12C, small variation all day, locally rising to 13C east Yorks Dales NP. Feeling like 0 to 5C directly in the wind on tops.
And in the valleys
13C at dawn, rising to 18C eastern dales, or higher far south. Western dales see only slight rise.
Planning Outlook
Westerlies prevail across northern Britain. Rain, drizzle and low cloud most frequent over western hills from Lake District northward. Temperatures near average, but feeling cool in exposure to wind on tops, which could regularly be quite strong and gusty. An improving trend from the south into and over the weekend as higher pressure builds, best conditions for Wales and eastern hills elsewhere. A drier and warmer window looks probable from early-to-middle next week, very warm sunshine on some days England and Wales, southwesterlies still bring more cloud to western Scotland, some rain at times, wettest toward northwest. This pattern looks to continue into the following weekend with high pressure to the southwest maintaining drier conditions here with cloudier/damper conditions in the north and west.