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Main Links
UK mountain regions
UK snow conditions
General UK and worldwide weather
Forecasts on Radio
Other Links
- Chris Crocker lists weather forecasts for Britain's mountains.
- Cairn Gorm Weather station - data and photographs from the automatic weather station on the summit of Cairn Gorm, with a selection of additional links.
Satellite images
- The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois has background information on satellites and remote imaging, including interpretation of images.
- The Satellite Receiving Station at Dundee University has pictures from NOAA satellites.
- The UK Met. Office has the latest visible spectrum and infra-red satellite pictures of Europe. The shipping forecast gives a good idea of what's going on.
- European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) - contour plots from the ECMWF forecast model. This model runs to 6 days into the future and provides data at 24 hour intervals for sea level pressure, 850mb winds and temperatures and 500mb heights. The plots are generated at 01:45 AM (GMT) daily.
Telephone forecast for the Lake District
- You'll have to get off your backside to use this one (but you can use it from more places than the Web-based ones): the Lake District fells weather forecast is on (01768) 775757. It's updated twice per day (at 08:00 and 17:30) and usually includes a warden's report from Helvellyn. To my knowledge this is the only specialist mountain weather forecast service left which is not on a premium-rate number, so use it while it lasts!
General weather indexes
- Ant Veal has a well-organised UK Weather Centre.
- Roger Brugge's links: links to European weather sites