Scowles, Gloucestershire Weather
About Scowles, Gloucestershire
Scowles commands a landscape defined by the jagged, ancient scars of iron ore extraction that have long since surrendered to the encroaching emerald of the Forest of Dean. It lies 0.9 miles west of Coleford (from Coleford: bearing 281°T, OS grid SO 561 109). The earth here is hollowed and uneven, revealing the deep, moss-lined chasms that give the terrain its distinctive, broken character. A short distance to the north, the protected canopy of Dingle Wood SSSI offers a quiet sanctuary where the light filters through the leaves in sharp, angular shafts. Further north-west, the Scheduled Monument of Scowles in Dingle Wood preserves the remnants of prehistoric mining, where the ground remains twisted and curious beneath the heavy timber. These deep, geological fissures act as silent witnesses to an industrial past that has been reclaimed by thickets of bramble and fern. Scowles endures as a rugged fragment of Gloucestershire, where the silence is broken only by the sudden call of a bird or the shifting of loose, iron-rich stone. The entire district holds a gravity born of centuries of toil, now softened by the patient, persistent growth of the woodland.
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About This Scowles, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scowles, 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 Scowles includes coordinates 51.795568, -2.637411, 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 Scowles is available on the Scowles 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.