Colton, North Yorkshire Weather
About Colton, North Yorkshire
Colton emerges from the flat, fertile plains of North Yorkshire as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the patient pace of the seasons. It lies 3.7 miles east-north-east of Tadcaster (from Tadcaster: bearing 77°T, OS grid SE 543 448), and is situated south-south-east of Bilbrough village. Low ridges of earth rise modestly to the south, where Lick Hill breaks the horizon with a gentle, grass-covered swell. The light here often gathers in the hollows of the fields, turning the long shadows of late afternoon into pools of cool, grey ink. To the southwest, the earth holds the ghost of the past in the form of the Steeton Medieval Village, where moated sites and silent fishponds suggest a time when life moved to the slow pulse of the soil. Beyond these remnants, the land stretches out in a patchwork of hedgerows and fallow furrows that have long sustained the local economy of arable farming. Colton remains a place where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, indifferent to the hurried progress of the wider world. The horizon remains wide and unobstructed, allowing the sky to assert its vast, changing presence over the rooftops.
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Live animated radar for Colton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Colton, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colton, North Yorkshire, 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 Colton includes coordinates 53.896685, -1.174343, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Colton is available on the Colton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the North Yorkshire 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.