Embsay, North Yorkshire Weather
About Embsay, North Yorkshire
Embsay holds the quiet gravity of limestone grit and ancient, unyielding earth. It lies 1.8 miles north-east of Skipton (from Skipton: bearing 41°T, OS grid SE 008 537), and is situated south-west of Eastby village. The sharp, rhythmic clatter of the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway often breaks the stillness, a mechanical pulse echoing against the surrounding slopes. Water from Embsay Beck carves a restless path through the lower ground, its cold clarity reflecting the shifting moods of the Yorkshire sky. To the north, the slopes of White Stones Hill rise with a stark, moorland indifference that commands the horizon. Embsay carries the weight of a long industrial memory, where the local landscape was once shaped by the unrelenting demands of textile mills and quarries. Now, the atmosphere remains dense with the scent of damp moss and coal smoke, a lingering ghost of the engines that once dominated the valley floor. Time here moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, turning the hills a bruised purple as autumn light drains slowly from the day.
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About This Embsay, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Embsay, 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 Embsay includes coordinates 53.980186, -1.987933, 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 Embsay is available on the Embsay 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.