Gunness commands a steady view across the low-lying plains of Humberside, where the horizon broadens under an expansive and often silvery sky. It lies 3.3 miles west of Scunthorpe (from Scunthorpe: bearing 269°T, OS grid SE 842 112), and is situated north-east of Keadby village. The persistent presence of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation brings a quiet, industrial gravity to the western edge of Gunness, where the water mirrors the shifting clouds with rhythmic precision. Nearby, the historic Keadby Lock serves as a silent witness to the passage of vessels that have long navigated these flat, fertile reaches. The landscape here possesses a certain stark honesty, stripped of pretension and defined by the intersection of earth and waterway. Local life is punctuated by the faint hum of modern transit, yet the surrounding fields retain a patient, enduring quality that has outlasted generations of change. As evening descends, the light catches the surface of the Three Rivers, casting a pale, metallic sheen that lingers long after the sun has dipped below the distant embankment. Gunness remains a place where the character of the land is measured not by grand monuments, but by the steady, unyielding flow of the tides and the currents of the neighbouring canal.
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Live animated radar for Gunness and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gunness, Humberside, 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 Gunness includes coordinates 53.590733, -0.728267, in the county of Humberside, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Gunness is available on the Gunness map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Humberside 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.