Booth Fold, Lancashire Weather
About Booth Fold, Lancashire
Booth Fold carries the quiet, persistent weight of the Pennine hills, its stone cottages hunkered down against the prevailing winds that sweep across the Rossendale slopes. It lies 1.6 miles east-south-east of Rawtenstall (from Rawtenstall: bearing 104°T, OS grid SD 836 221), and is situated north of Cowpe village. The light here often takes on a bruised, metallic quality, reflecting off the dark gritstone walls that define the local architecture. To the east, the rugged contours of Siss Clough carve a deep, cooling shadow into the landscape, drawing the eye toward the wilder elevations beyond. Residents often walk toward the nearby Edgeside Park, where the manicured green provides a sharp, deliberate contrast to the untamed moorland grass that encroaches from the higher ground. History remains anchored in the remnants of the textile trade, where the rhythmic clatter of looms once dictated the pulse of the working day. Booth Fold retains a stubborn, solitary character, defined more by its steep gradients and the sudden, atmospheric shifts in the weather than by the sprawl of neighbouring districts. Winter evenings pull a heavy, damp silence over the rooftops, leaving the chimneys to trace thin, grey lines against the encroaching dusk.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Booth Fold, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Booth Fold, Lancashire, 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 Booth Fold includes coordinates 53.695236, -2.248807, in the county of Lancashire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Booth Fold is available on the Booth Fold map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Lancashire 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.