In reply to minty1984:
I agree that it is very difficult to trust the weather foreasts. I did a ski season this winter and had many days where the weather said it is currently dumping snow and there will be 40cm of it....... Yet I would be on the lift being baked in sunshine and not a cloud to be seen!
It does appear that all of the forecasts I have been looking at and the new ones I just checked seem to be of a very similar opinion.
We have our walking boots and water proofs and also the mountain bikes so there will be plenty to get into until the weather settles.