Cracoe, North Yorkshire Weather
About Cracoe, North Yorkshire
Cracoe commands a stoic presence amidst the limestone scars of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, where the horizon is defined by the sharp, grey architecture of the fells. It lies 5.3 miles north of Skipton (from Skipton: bearing 351°T, OS grid SD 975 599), and is situated north-north-east of Rylstone village. Beneath the vast, shifting canopy of the northern sky, Cracoe occupies a landscape where the light seems to sharpen the edges of every dry-stone wall. Fell Beck murmurs quietly just to the east, tracing a path through the fields that have sustained local agriculture for generations. To the west, the slopes of Coonlands Hill rise with a quiet, geological patience that dictates the movement of the local winds. The air here carries a crisp, thin clarity, often smelling of damp grass and the cool, mineral scent of the high limestone plateaus. Visitors passing through Cracoe are often struck by the way the buildings seem to grow out of the earth itself, as if the stone has simply been persuaded to take the shape of a home. This is a place of long, quiet shadows and wide, open vistas, where the land remains the primary architect of daily life.
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About This Cracoe, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cracoe, 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 Cracoe includes coordinates 54.035508, -2.038501, 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 Cracoe is available on the Cracoe 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.