Howley, Gloucestershire Weather
About Howley, Gloucestershire
Howley emerges from the limestone folds of the Cotswolds as a quiet cluster of dwellings defined by the shifting shadows of the escarpment. It lies 1.3 miles north-west of Wotton-under-Edge (from Wotton-under-Edge: bearing 304°T, OS grid ST 740 944), and is situated south of North Nibley village. The landscape here holds a certain austerity, where the thin, pale sunlight of afternoon catches the drystone walls that partition the fields. To the east, the ancient earthworks of Brackenbury Camp command the high ground, their silent ramparts offering a stark perspective over the valley floor. The dense canopy of Westridge Wood filters the air, bringing a scent of damp leaf mould and cooling moss to the lanes that wind toward the hamlet. Howley remains a place of transition, where the heavy, clay-rich earth yields to the steeper, limestone-heavy slopes of the surrounding ridge. This terrain has long dictated the quiet, agricultural rhythm of the residents, who move through a geography shaped more by the persistence of rainfall and bedrock than by industrial ambition. Even now, the horizon is anchored by the distant, vertical presence of the Tyndale Monument, which watches over the terrain like a sentinel of stone.
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About This Howley, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Howley, Gloucestershire, 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 Howley includes coordinates 51.648016, -2.376468, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Howley is available on the Howley map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Gloucestershire 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.