New hill and mountain forecasts from the Met Office

[LandyLiam]

Met Office forecasts are now available for hill and mountain summit locations across the UK, providing an accurate and extensive range of weather forecasts to walkers and climbers

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2012/hill-and-mountain-summit-forecasts


This new service announced today that now includes forecasts for specific summits, including 12 in the Mournes.

click this link http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/leisure/#?tab=map

then select the summits button at the right of the map

then click on the 12 in the map above the mournes to see a list of summits

[LennyJ1]

Thanks for putting this up Liam.  Kudos

[LandyLiam]

It always annoyed me that if I went to the mountain forecast it didn't have the mournes.

well technically it still doesn't, well not from the mountain range forecast page, but if you use this link ( http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ni/ni_forecast_weather.html ) you do get a little bit of a mourne forecast at the bottom of the northern ireland one.

[RedLeader]

Interesting. Is this just a pure scientific forecast or do they have equipment on the mountains?

[LandyLiam]

No equipment on the mountains in this country, in Scotland they have weather stations on some big mountains like Cairngorm. http://cairngormweather.eps.hw.ac.uk/

[Daithi2004]

Here is another website that I came accross. It shows the weather forecast for the different mountain ranges in the world. I norrowed down to the Irish ones.
http://www.myweather2.com/Hill-and-Mountain/Ireland.aspx