Hi,
As a result of what, in the main, has been a very disappointing summer here (southern England) so far, together with a recent two-week trip to the Tirol which was beset by near-constant "unsettled" weather with cloud covering the mountains at 2000-2500m and a fair amount of thunder, I feel in need of getting some sun and some mountain climbing in before the summer's out.
I've got a week's leave in mid-September (15th to 21st) and was considering the Pyrenees, specifically the French side of the central section (somewhere in the Breche du Roland area, nothing more specific as yet) - in the hope that somewhere further south might get more reliable weather. Can anyone give me an idea as to the probability of settled weather there at that time of year? What I would not want to do is book it up then find I just get the same experience I did in the Alps.
I know that one can never guarantee the weather but I'd probably only go if the chances of persistent "unsettled" weather is less than 20%. I could cope with a couple of rainy days in a week, or the "Colorado-type" weather of sunny mornings followed by scattered showers/storms in the afternoon (with no low cloud obscuring the storm clouds), but what I wouldn't want is day after day of cloud covering the summits, with intermittent rain most days, which due to the unusual jet stream pattern is what I got in the Tirol this year.
Can anyone with experience of the area at that time of year give some idea on the chances of reasonably good weather?
Thanks,
Nick