Whitley Head, Gloucestershire Weather
About Whitley Head, Gloucestershire
Whitley Head emerges from the limestone ridges of North Somerset as a quiet sentinel overlooking the low-lying levels. It lies 4.0 miles east-south-east of Weston-super-Mare (from Weston-super-Mare: bearing 111°T, OS grid ST 381 588), and is situated east-south-east of Elborough village. The light here catches the pale, fractured stone of the hillsides, where the earth hides the ancient, dark secrets of the Banwell Caves Sssi beneath the turf. Whitley Head keeps its own pace, tethered to the slow, heavy gravity of the Mendip slopes rather than the restless tide of the nearby coast. Where the ground rises toward the limestone, the shadows cast by Banwell Hill lengthen across the fields, cooling the day with a sudden, sharp clarity. Local tradition lingers in the stillness of the surrounding pasture, where the land seems to hold the weight of centuries in its deep, stony silence. Visitors passing through find that Whitley Head offers a stark, austere beauty, unadorned by the fuss of modern commerce. Each season brings a different temperament to the heights, turning the grass from the vibrant green of spring to the brittle, bleached straw of a late-summer drought.
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About This Whitley Head, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Whitley Head, 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 Whitley Head includes coordinates 51.325634, -2.888931, 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 Whitley Head is available on the Whitley Head 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.