Piercy, Lancashire Weather
About Piercy, Lancashire
Piercy clings to the steep, rugged contours of the Rossendale valley, where the gritstone landscape reveals the hard-won legacy of northern industrialism. It lies 1.5 miles east of Rawtenstall (from Rawtenstall: bearing 89°T, OS grid SD 835 228), and is situated north of Cowpe village. Stone-built dwellings here hold the chill of the high Pennine shadows, their slate roofs catching a silver, transient light that shifts rapidly as clouds race over the summits. To the north-east, the persistent, rhythmic chatter of Shaw Clough Brook carves a path through the dark earth, offering a constant reminder of the water power that once drove the local looms. The terrain rises sharply toward the heights of Acre Hill, where the wind carries a raw, unadorned clarity that strips away the clutter of the lowlands. Residents often walk the paths toward the quiet slopes of Siss Clough, where the valley floor softens into bracken and damp moss. Piercy remains defined by this stark proximity to the moor, a place where the architecture of the past stands in quiet, enduring conversation with the unrelenting weather of the high hills.
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About This Piercy, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Piercy, 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 Piercy includes coordinates 53.701398, -2.250691, 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 Piercy is available on the Piercy 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.