Rainow, Cheshire Weather
About Rainow, Cheshire
Rainow emerges from the undulating gritstone folds of the Cheshire landscape, a place where the sky feels perpetually closer to the earth. It lies 1.4 miles south-east of Bollington (from Bollington: bearing 141°T, OS grid SJ 950 760), and is situated north-north-east of Brookhouse village. Rainow occupies a rugged expanse within the Peak District National Park, where the air carries a sharp, clean clarity that defines the high moorland edge. To the south-west, the silhouette of Tower Hill rises with a quiet, imposing authority against the shifting clouds. The waters of Brookhouse Brook carve a persistent, silver path through the lower ground, marking the rhythm of the terrain. Rainow remains defined by the austere beauty of its stone dwellings and the expansive, windswept horizons that offer little shelter from the prevailing winds. Travellers might notice the singular, heavy silence that settles here when the sun dips behind the western ridges, casting long, bruised shadows across the fields. This landscape demands a certain resilience, a quality reflected in the enduring character of those who inhabit these high, singular reaches.
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Live animated radar for Rainow and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Rainow, Cheshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rainow, Cheshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Rainow includes coordinates 53.281024, -2.075115, in the county of Cheshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Rainow is available on the Rainow map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cheshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.