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  1. This website gives you the weather forecast for any UK
    Mountain or Hill range out to 72 hours at a 3 hour
    resolution. That can't be bad. Does anybody else have any
    recommended websites?

    metcheck.commountain.asp

  2. "looby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    This website gives you the weather forecast for any UK
    Mountain or Hill range out to 72 hours at a 3 hour
    resolution. That can't be bad. Does anybody else have any
    recommended websites?

    metcheck.commountain.asp

    A bit paragliding biased, but if you want to know what the
    wind is doing:-

    www.wendywindblows.com (subscription needed)
    xcweather.co.ukxcweather.co.uk phd.nlwx
    (you can get weather maps upto 132Hrs away)
    windguru.czwindguru.cz (Surfing biased, but may come in hand
    if paragliding/walking near the coast www.metcheck.com

    The aviation weather site is good for seeing what it might
    be like next weekend, metcheck is good for what it might be
    like in a day or two, and xcweather and wendywindblows are
    good for what it's doing now. (Northwesterly at Carlton Bank
    - might be worth lugging 40 pounds of paraglider up the hill
    - I'm off!!)

    Dave

  3. (looby) said:

    This website gives you the weather forecast for any UK
    Mountain or Hill range out to 72 hours at a 3 hour
    resolution. That can't be bad. Does anybody else have any
    recommended websites?

    metcheck.commountain.asp

    It's a nice idea, but computer generated and IME almost
    always wrong. And the choice of hills shows that they don't
    have any mountaineers on their staff!

    The best outdoor forecast is currently from Geoff Monk:
    home.btconnect.commountain

  4. "looby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    This website gives you the weather forecast for any UK
    Mountain or Hill range out to 72 hours at a 3 hour
    resolution. That can't be bad. Does anybody else have any
    recommended websites?

    This site (Acrobat Reader required):

    wasdaleweb.co.ukweather.html

    covers the Lakeland Fells, western Pennines north from
    Ingleborough.

    It provides a British mountain generally summary for the day
    (with a General Synopsis map), a detailed mountain forecast
    for the day followed by a Look Ahead for the following 2
    days. Information includes:

    How windy on higher Fells and how the wind will affect the
    walker; How wet; Cloud on the hills, with a percentage given
    of cloud-free hills; Sunshine and air clarity; How cold with
    temperatures for given height and a freezing level; Snow
    cover in winter.

    The report concludes with a planning outlook for all
    mountain areas of Britain. Also, the final snippet is an
    automatic weather station report, eg showing today Saturday
    (from Friday 21 May at 1600): Great Dunn Fell 847m, wind ESE
    19mph, wind and temperature unavailable

    The weather info is reported to be updated daily at 1000.

    --
    Sandy Saunders @ www.thewalkzone.co.uk

    "Mountains or Mole Hills ..... reaching the summit still
    brings the same excitement"

  5. "looby" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    This website gives you the weather forecast for any UK
    Mountain or Hill range out to 72 hours at a 3 hour
    resolution. That can't be bad. Does anybody else have any
    recommended websites?

    metcheck.commountain.asp

    met-met-
    office.gov.uk/loutdoor/mountainsafety/index.html#wales

    for Wales

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    metcheck.commountain.asp

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    It's a nice idea, but computer generated and IME almost
    always wrong. And the choice of hills shows that they
    don't have any mountaineers on their staff!

    Funny that. I have found it reliable on the few occasions I
    have consulted it. However I have not needed to recently as
    I am still suffering from knee trouble. :-(

    --
    Roger Chapman so far this year 27 summits New - 16 (Marilyns
    4, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 11) Repeats - 11( Marilyns 2,
    Sweats 6, Wainwrights 11) Knackered knee - 3 times

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    The message <[email hidden]>
    from Simon Caldwell <[email hidden]> contains
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    metcheck.commountain.asp

    Quoted message said:

    It's a nice idea, but computer generated and IME almost
    always wrong. And the choice of hills shows that they
    don't have any mountaineers on their staff!

    Funny that. I have found it reliable on the few occasions
    I have consulted it. However I have not needed to recently
    as I am still suffering from knee trouble. :-(

    I've used it before and found it as reliable as any other
    form of forecast. My hillwalking blog is
    bagger.typepad.combagger.typepad.com

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