Hensall, North Yorkshire Weather
About Hensall, North Yorkshire
Hensall holds the flat, wide horizon of the North Yorkshire plain in a steady, unyielding grip. It lies 5.6 miles east of Knottingley (from Knottingley: bearing 95°T, OS grid SE 590 232), and is situated south-west of Temple Hirst village. The low-lying fields here are drained by the patient, silver-grey currents of Beck Drain, which slicks the landscape with a metallic sheen under the heavy, shifting clouds of the Humber. Just to the north-north-west, the rise of Gallows Hill disrupts the otherwise uniform flatness, offering a rare vantage point over the patchwork of arable land that defines the local economy. In the quiet intensity of early morning, the light catches the moisture clinging to the reeds and rushes, turning the earth into a mirror of the pale sky. Hensall maintains a quiet composure, its brickwork and lanes defined more by the necessities of the soil than by the grand gestures of history. Beyond the reach of the main roads, the atmosphere remains thick with the scent of damp earth and distant, harvested grain. The stillness is occasionally broken by the sharp, singular call of a bird navigating the open expanse between the village and the horizon.
Flight conditions near Hensall. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Hensall and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Hensall, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hensall, 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 Hensall includes coordinates 53.70269, -1.107615, 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 Hensall is available on the Hensall 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.