Hey, Lancashire Weather
About Hey, Lancashire
Hey commands the high, windswept ridges of the Lancashire moorlands with a quiet, flinty resilience. It lies 1.9 miles north-north-west of Colne (from Colne: bearing 335°T, OS grid SD 879 429), and is situated west-north-west of Foulridge village. The grey light of the North West often clings to the stone walls of Hey, illuminating the rugged transition where pasture gives way to the wilder, unyielding gritstone. To the north, the glass-still surface of Whitemoor Reservoir reflects the bruising purple of an impending storm, casting a metallic sheen across the moor. A short walk toward the north-east reveals the County Brook, a narrow, persistent vein of water that carves a jagged path through the sodden earth. The air here tastes of peat and distant coal smoke, a lingering scent from a time when the surrounding hills echoed with the industry of looms and quarries. Hey remains a place of sparse beauty, where the wind carries no apology for the severity of the horizon. Every stone structure appears forged from the landscape itself, weathered by decades of driving rain and the biting cold of the Pennine winter.
Flight conditions near Hey. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Hey and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Hey, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hey, 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 Hey includes coordinates 53.882545, -2.18452, 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 Hey is available on the Hey 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.