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.
Today'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.
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.
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.
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
Monday 12th October 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Extensive low cloud blankets the mountains, poor visibility widely; generally damp with drizzle and some steadier rain. Best chance for drier conditions and local higher cloud breaks to the north of major hill groups. Wind speeds will vary, but often blustery around tops. Fairly mild southerly air.
Headline for Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Murky and damp, better northeast; varied wind.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southerly 25 to 30mph, to 35mph at first highest tops, slightly less for a time in middle of day into afternoon. Then rising again later, toward 40mph soon from dusk, reaching 50mph into night.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery around higher exposed terrain, affecting ease of walking at times on high tops, easing somewhat. Deteriorating again into night.
How Wet?
Often damp western Dales
Patchy rain and drizzle, most persistent in the morning over western hills up to Tebay, odd heavier moments moving east for a time. Some drier periods toward northeast Pennines, mainly afternoon.
Cloud on the hills?
Extensive, lowest southwest
Shrouding most fells all day, from lower elevations upward in Three Peaks to Howgills area. Higher bases to 600m northeastward, some higher breaks mainly near Teesdale if drier.
Chance of cloud free summits?
10%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Overcast, dull or murky. Local brighter moments northeast.
How Cold? (at 700m)
10 to 12C, rising slightly warmer into night. Feeling near to freezing if in stronger wind.
And in the valleys
9C at dawn, rising to 16C afternoon, feeling more humid.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Tuesday 13th October 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
West-southwesterly, gales up to dawn ease for a brief lull to 25mph or less, but rise again during daytime to 40-50mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
A window of fairly small effects, but beware of deteriorating again as the day goes on to become challenging.
How Wet?
Early rain, then showers
Heavy rain early in day clears away eastwards in morning, leaving a brief drier window, but showers then follow from the west, these locally more frequent in west, odd heavier moments.
Cloud on the hills?
Lifting after rain, patches on tops
Fairly extensive cloud from dawn, but soon lifting and breaking into the morning, clearing to just odd patches on higher tops and many hills clear. Some cloud banks lower more widely in showers.
Chance of cloud free summits?
60%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Occasional sun best in east as rain clears, then cloudier again from west. Visibility very good as rain clears, then reducing around showers, locally poor.
How Cold? (at 700m)
Mild 12C overnight but dropping to 8C into morning, lowering further with time to 6C. Feeling later like -6C as wind increases.
And in the valleys
Mild 14C from dawn, up to 16C eastern dales, little change night into day, then gradually lowering afternoon into evening.
Viewing Forecast For
Yorkshire Dales & North Pennines
Wednesday 14th October 2026
Last updated
Sun 11th Oct 26 at
4:00PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly, in range 35 to 50mph, notable increase with height; strongest in afternoon, to 60mph N Pennines.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous walking even on lower fells, gusts knocking you off balance, increasingly difficult on high terrain.
How Wet?
A little rain mostly west
Spots of rain in the wind, becoming frequently damp around cloud over western Yorks Dales, drier further north and east across the Pennines.
Cloud on the hills?
Often covering tops in west
Banks of cloud clinging to higher slopes in west, more often south of Tebay to 600m lower at times. Breaks to upper slopes more frequent northeastern areas.
Chance of cloud free summits?
30% west, to 60% northeast.
Sunshine and air clarity?
Glimpses of weak sun most often northeastern dales. Some haze toward west, good visibility more eastern areas.
How Cold? (at 700m)
6C rising to 10C. Feeling like -5C directly in the wind.
And in the valleys
7C at dawn, rising to mild 15C by late afternoon.
Planning Outlook
A very unsettled Atlantic pattern this week. Southwesterly gales strengthen to become severe on the mountains into Wednesday, moderating into Thursday. Frequently raining particularly over western hills, some bands of more extensive heavier rain passing eastwards through midweek. Milder early in the week, then cooler later, with showery conditions by Thursday into Friday on westerly winds - Scottish high summits may drop back close to freezing with some snow falling on higher tops. Indications start to favour higher pressure building into next weekend and early next week for a period of quieter weather and scope for inversion conditions on high terrain.