Draughton, North Yorkshire Weather
About Draughton, North Yorkshire
Draughton draws its character from the stark limestone edges of the Craven district, where the wind scours the stone into a quiet, grey resilience. It lies 3.1 miles east of Skipton (from Skipton: bearing 80°T, OS grid SE 038 524), and is situated south-east of Eastby village. The land rises sharply toward Banks Hill, a high spine of earth that catches the low, pale light of the North Yorkshire sky before it spills down into the shadows of the valley. Below this vantage, the waters of Lillands Beck carve a singular, persistent path through the rock, marking the terrain with the cold clarity of a mountain spring. Draughton retains the spare, unadorned architecture of a place built for endurance against the persistent gales that sweep across the Pennine ridges. Nearby, the remnants of the Wheelam Kilns stand as hollowed witnesses to a time when fire and labour were the primary currents of the local industry. The air here holds a clean, sharp edge, untempered by the clamour of the busier market routes to the west. Through the seasons, the landscape maintains a rigorous, ascetic beauty that demands nothing from the traveller but a measured, respectful gaze.
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About This Draughton, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Draughton, 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 Draughton includes coordinates 53.968273, -1.94216, 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 Draughton is available on the Draughton 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.