Southern Uplands
The Galloway hills eastward to the Lammermuir hills. The Cheviots (including higher hills within the adjacent Northumberland NP).
Saturday's Forecast
Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
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.
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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Moderate breeze, locally gusty
A noticeable breeze, feeling cool where exposed on tops. Locally may be gusty, but unlikely to affect walking progress. 15-25mph.
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.
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
Southern Uplands
Saturday 6th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
Summary for all mountain areas
Patchy rain toward the south of the Highlands, and tends to become more persistent west coasts. Varied low cloud, higher breaks generally north. A swathe of rain and low cloud northern England and southern Scotland. Clusters of showery rain for Wales, heavy bursts with local thunder. Wind speeds varying.
Headline for Southern Uplands
Breezy start, easing. Rain, drizzle, low cloud.
How windy? (On the summits)
Southeasterly 25 to 30mph early morning, strongest toward east, easing into afternoon to 15mph or less. Turning southerly toward evening, starting to increase, then southwesterly 25-35mph into night, soonest in west.
Effect of the wind on you?
Blustery early in day, feeling cool and may affect comfortable walking on tops for a time, but lessening to then become fairly small until late evening.
How Wet?
Rain and drizzle on and off
Rain and drizzle frequent and fairly widely much of the day, some steadier pulses of rain particularly southern hills. Breaking up a little to be patchy afternoon, locally drier for periods in north, but risk showery rain moving back in from south later.
Cloud on the hills?
Becoming fairly extensive, lowest south
Cloud banks covering hills near Solway already from around dawn, whilst more north and eastern hills start clearer. Cloud lowering more widely, filling in to lower elevations southwest areas. Some breaks northward when dry.
Chance of cloud free summits?
Starting 60% north/east, lowering to 20% widely
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sun weak at best through high cloud early in day in east, becoming widely overcast. Visibility very good where dry, but reducing in rain, risk becoming poor in west.
How Cold? (at 750m)
6C rising to 8 or 9C afternoon. Feeling near/below freezing in the wind.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Sunday 7th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 30-40mph, likely near the higher speeds for several afternoon hours, risk gusting 50mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Strenuous or arduous walking most or all day, significant wind chill. Highest speeds may knock you off balance.
How Wet?
Patchy rain, setting in from west afternoon
Patches of rain will drift from the southwest throughout the day, falls amounting to little through morning. From midday, falls increasingly frequent, may set in near and west of M74.
Cloud on the hills?
May be fairly extensive west
Most hills in cloud above 500-600m at dawn, a lifting trend with some breaks to summits east of M74. Cloud may briefly lift in the west too, but then lowers again, towards middle or lower slopes through afternoon.
Chance of cloud free summits?
60% east, 30% west
Sunshine and air clarity?
Sunshine increasingly weakened by high cloud, may stay largely cloudy west. Good visibility but a haze to the west.
How Cold? (at 750m)
8 to 10C, coolest southern Galloway slopes east to Moffat hills. Feeling below freezing in strongest wind.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Viewing Forecast For
Southern Uplands
Monday 8th June 2026
Last updated
Fri 5th Jun 26 at
4:30PM
How windy? (On the summits)
Southwesterly 20 to 25mph.
Effect of the wind on you?
Fairly small effect on walking, but feeling blustery and a noticeable chill on exposed high terrain.
How Wet?
Showery rain
A band of rain clears eastward around dawn, heavy briefly Cheviots. Then broadly showery, bursts of rain passing west to east, risk isolated thunder, later particularly eastern areas.
Cloud on the hills?
Breaks to tops
Varied patchy cloud over the hills, lowest most often near Solway, but good breaks to upper slopes further north and eastward.
Chance of cloud free summits?
50%
Sunshine and air clarity?
Brief bursts of sun. Visibility good away from showers and below cloud.
How Cold? (at 750m)
5 to 7C, mildest east. Feeling below freezing directly in the wind.
Freezing Level
Above the summits.
Planning Outlook
Generally unsettled next week - showers affect most hills Monday and Tuesday, lowest cloud and most persistent rain along western slopes, but with some breaks as well with sunshine. Risk of a deeper area of lower pressure from Wednesday or later bringing widespread strong winds, probably gales over many summits, with prolonged heavy rain. Temperatures trending milder again into next weekend, pressure may begin to rise in the south to give drier weather more widely with time.