Tunstead, Derbyshire Weather
About Tunstead, Derbyshire
Tunstead reveals itself as a stark cluster of gritstone and history, emerging from the high, unforgiving limestone plateaus of Derbyshire. It lies 3.4 miles east-north-east of Buxton (from Buxton: bearing 70°T, OS grid SK 109 750), and is situated west-north-west of Wormhill village. Within the rugged embrace of the Peak District National Park, Tunstead clings to a landscape defined by deep, ancient fissures and the relentless bite of the wind. To the north, the rounded profile of Bole Hill breaks the horizon, its slopes concealing the earthen secrets of the One Of Two Bowl Barrows On Bole Hill. The light here has a sharp, pale clarity, stripping the shadows from the drystone walls that partition the fields into a geometric puzzle of grey and green. Below these heights, the limestone earth drops away into the verdant, hushed depths of Flag Dale, where the air grows heavy with the scent of damp moss and cooling stone. Tunstead persists as a place of quiet endurance, where the heavy silence of the hills is broken only by the sudden, sharp cry of a circling buzzard. This high, exposed corner of the world remains tethered to the bedrock, indifferent to the slow, creeping tides of the modern age.
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About This Tunstead, Derbyshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tunstead, Derbyshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Tunstead includes coordinates 53.27203, -1.837851, in the county of Derbyshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Tunstead is available on the Tunstead map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Derbyshire 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.