Red Scar, Lancashire Weather
About Red Scar, Lancashire
Red Scar maintains a quiet presence on the edge of the industrial and the wild, where the steady hum of modern logistics meets the ancient, clay-heavy earth of Lancashire. It lies 2.8 miles east of Fulwood (from Fulwood: bearing 96°T, OS grid SD 575 324), and is situated south-south-east of Cow Hill village. The landscape here is defined by a sharp transition, as the sprawling business parks give way to the deep, silent ravines of the Red Scar And Tun Brook Woods Sssi. Within these sheltered corridors, the light catches the damp leaves and mossy banks with a silver intensity that seems entirely removed from the nearby motorway. Beyond these tangled thickets, the expansive waters of Brockholes Quarry mirror the changing sky, offering a sanctuary for wildfowl that drift undisturbed across the dark, still surface. Red Scar bears the distinct character of a place caught between the utility of the present and the persistent, slow reclamation of the natural world. The ground beneath feels heavy with the memory of its geological past, where the strata of the earth are laid bare in the steep banks of the local brooks. Here, the air carries a crisp, metallic sharpness in the winter, yet softens in the spring to smell of wet stone and rising greenery.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Red Scar, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Red Scar, 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 Red Scar includes coordinates 53.787021, -2.646314, 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 Red Scar is available on the Red Scar 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.