Poor
42/100Wet sandstone or gritstone in the forecast: wait until the rock is fully dry before climbing.
Crag-wide signal
Climbing wet sandstone or gritstone is inadvisable. Wait until the rock is fully dry.
- Rock surface
- Damp or patchy
- Recent rain
- 1.3 mm / 24 h
- Climbing-window rain
- 0.2 mm
- Face wind / gust
- 10 / 20 mph
- Above-crag gust
- 32 mph
- Best drying window
- 10:00–12:00
- Greasy-rock risk
- High
- Midge risk at belays
- Low · 7/100
Sun and shade
About 2.6 hours of sunshine at the face. Open ground above may receive about 4.1 hours.
- Sun at the face
- About 2.6 hours
- Sun above the crag
- About 4.1 hours
Approximate sunshine from 08:00 until sunset (about 19:46), allowing for cloud and nearby hills. Individual routes and belays may differ.
How we estimate sun and shade
We use a digital elevation model (a 3D map of the land), the sun's position and the direction the crag faces to estimate when nearby hills or the face itself block the sun. Forecast sunshine and cloud then help estimate how much sunshine is likely. Where terrain or face-direction data are missing, we show general sunshine only.
Vegetation is not mapped in detail, and we cannot resolve small rock features, ledges or overhangs. Hills beyond the sampled 2 km can also change local shade. Sunshine does not guarantee dry or ice-free rock.
Wind, rain and daily score: 08:00–18:00 local time.
Experimental wind estimate: Shelter at individual holds and belays is unresolved. Strong gusts may differ substantially; summit-station validation does not establish crag-level accuracy.
Wind: The mapped face may offer some shelter from the westerly wind, but open ground above the crag is more exposed, with gusts around 32 mph. Trees may reduce wind at the base, but woodland shelter is not resolved; these are exposed-sector estimates, not a measured sheltered-belay wind. A precomputed terrain-flow profile refines how the face shelter changes with wind direction. The face is broadly most sheltered in northerly flow and most exposed in southwesterly flow.
Midges: Forecast conditions are generally unfavourable for midge activity on the face, though the most sheltered corners may differ. The breeze should suppress them on exposed ground, but sheltered pockets may differ. Rain in the preceding three days may leave wetter habitat. Cloudier conditions favour activity.
Climbing is inadvisable until the rock is completely dry.