Wrightington, Lancashire Weather
About Wrightington, Lancashire
Wrightington emerges from the West Lancashire landscape as a collection of pastoral pockets defined by the shifting moods of the North West sky. It lies 2.5 miles west-north-west of Standish (from Standish: bearing 302°T, OS grid SD 526 123), and is situated west-south-west of Mossy Lea village. The terrain here rises toward the crest of Harrock Hill, where the horizon broadens to capture the pale, thin light common to these northern latitudes. Below these elevations, the ground retains a quiet moisture that nurtures the greenery of the Wrightington Bar Pasture Sssi, a small but vital fragment of preserved meadowland. Stone walls, weathered by centuries of rain, trace the boundaries of fields that have long supported the local agricultural character. The air often carries a stillness that gathers around the remnants of the old windmill, a silent sentinel overlooking the changing patterns of the farms. In the deeper folds of the land, the Fairy Glen offers a sheltered descent where the earth feels cooler and the shadows linger longer against the mossy banks. Wrightington maintains a composure that is neither hurried nor indifferent, holding its history in the quiet alignment of its lanes and the persistence of its rural rhythm.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Wrightington, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wrightington, 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 Wrightington includes coordinates 53.605911, -2.716617, 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 Wrightington is available on the Wrightington 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.