Early Forecast for Sunday....

How windy? (On the summits)

Westerly, in the range 45 to 60mph.


Effect of wind on you?

Considerable buffeting; walking difficult on higher areas. Significant wind chill.


How Wet?

Occasional rain and snow

Most precipitation western hills, although often light and patchy; snow on higher tops, but increasingly rain below 500m.

Cloud on the hills?

Increasingly covering hills

Often covering higher areas in north Yorkshire, patchy cloud may come and go on higher tops south of Skipton, but cloud base likely to progressively lower through day.

Chance of cloud free summits?

40%

Sunshine and air clarity?

Sunshine rare, most if any early morning through a veil of high cloud. Hazy. Visibility intermittently good, but deteriorating later in cloud and rain.

Temperature (at 600m)

-1 rising through the day toward 1C.

And in the valleys

4 or 5C.