Dentdale Youth Hostel (Cumbria) weather

Headline:

Storm Amy to bring potential disruption.

Today:

Any early brightness soon giving way to increasingly grey skies as Storm Amy drives rain, heavy at times, across the region with gales developing in the afternoon. A mild day despite the widespread cloud. Maximum temperature 17 °C.

Tonight:

Rain clearing during the evening with scattered showers and clear spells overnight. Remaining very windy with continuing gales, locally severe in exposed areas. Rather humid evening, feeling fresher by dawn. Minimum temperature 8 °C.

Saturday:

Unsettled with showers and longer spells of rain. Sunnier spells are possible, but feeling noticeably cooler than of late with brisk northwesterly winds and further gales. Maximum temperature 12 °C.

Outlook for Sunday to Tuesday:

Winds easing from Sunday as Storm Amy moves away, though remaining breezy. Some brighter spells possible, but often cloud into next week with patchy rain at times, chiefly around hills.

A broadly westerly pattern to start, maintaining relatively mild conditions, especially by night, with some weaker frontal systems moving in from the Atlantic. These will bring further spells of rain or drizzle at times, most likely affecting northern and western areas. Eastern areas generally look drier. By the weekend (11/12 October), there is a signal for pressure to build from the west or southwest of the UK, this means mostly lighter winds and settled for the bulk of the UK with only a risk of wet and at times windy weather for the north or east at the weekend. Under the settled conditions variable amounts of cloud, but fog an increasing risk where skies remain clear, possibly turning cooler later in the period as winds come from the east.

The latter half of October will probably see a transition to more widely unsettled conditions once more. Whether this takes the form of successive depressions moving in from the Atlantic or a rather slower evolving weather pattern remains to be seen, but there is a greater chance of more places seeing more frequent spells of rain or showers and possibly strong winds. Temperatures probably close to average overall.