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Met Office upgraded warning to an amber - flooding expected tomorrow. Take care if out and about!
13/11/2025

Met Office upgraded warning to an amber - flooding expected tomorrow. Take care if out and about!

12/11/2025

Friday will be another very wet day. Rain will become persistent and heavy which with already saturated ground, is likely to lead to localised flooding across the Forest. Met office weather warning out for this risk.

Following this, next week will turn colder - mainly dry with perhaps some wintry showers by the end of the week.

06/01/2025

Weather warning in place for snow and ice issued for tonight. I think ice is more the concern here, there maybe a slight covering of snow from showers, but temperatures are already sub zero, and there is a lot of surface water around the forest roads.

Sleet/snow showers pushing in from the west at around first light tomorrow are likely to get broken up by the Welsh mountains.

Be careful on the roads first thing.

More significant snow potential for Friday....updates to follow

04/01/2025

As expected snow falling well now across the forest, started as sleet at lower levels but heavier precipitation has brought the temperature down to turn it to snow. A few more hours of snow expected but uncertainty around this - may start to turn sleety around midnight (freezing rain risk).

Please drive carefully if out and about!

Really tricky forecast for this evening/tonight/tomorrow:5pm-0300am (ISH): snow pushing up from the southwest will likel...
04/01/2025

Really tricky forecast for this evening/tonight/tomorrow:

5pm-0300am (ISH): snow pushing up from the southwest will likely give 5-10cm of snow across the forest especially over higher areas.

0300-0600am (ISH): snow will turn to sleet/freezing rain potentially causing dangerous conditions - this is quite uncertain and may stay as snow for a bit longer , especially over higher routes.

0600 onwards: temperatures start to rise quite quickly resulting in a rapid thaw of any lying snow, there will also be spells of rain tomorrow - temperatures in the teens by evening.

Monday onwards: becoming colder again with overnight frost and ice hazards.

There is an amber warning out from the Met Office for snow and freezing rain to cater for the risk overnight.

Take care if out and about!

19/11/2024

Forecast was about as expected, snow settled over higher parts of the forest but nothing lower down. Little travel disruption as tarmac surfaces too warm. Cold and dry until Saturday where heavy rain will bring much milder weather!

18/11/2024

We may well see some falling snow by morning lasting through until lunchtime tomorrow. Lots of uncertainty about how heavy, and whether there will be any accumulations, but higher parts of the forest may see some settling snow ❄️

A band of heavy rain will push across us overnight and into tomorrow morning. Two risks occur with this, firstly there m...
29/02/2024

A band of heavy rain will push across us overnight and into tomorrow morning. Two risks occur with this, firstly there may be some surface water flooding given the saturated ground we currently have. Secondly, there is a chance rain could turn to sleet and snow above around 200m, potentially giving a slushy covering (see forest elevations attached).

Showers amd longer spells of rain may also turn to sleet and snow tomorrow.

Very messy picture and gusty winds, not a great day to be out and about. See attached images for potential scenarios.

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