Kettleness, North Yorkshire Weather
About Kettleness, North Yorkshire
Kettleness commands a precarious edge where the North Yorkshire cliffs surrender to the relentless scouring of the North Sea. It lies 5.0 miles north-west of Whitby (from Whitby: bearing 307°T, OS grid NZ 831 155), and is situated east-south-east of Runswick Bay village. High above the grey, churning foam, the landscape retains the jagged memory of industry, marked by the expansive ruins of the Alum Works at Kettleness that once scarred this wild coastline for the sake of commerce. To the south, the solitary rise of Cow Hill provides a silent vantage point over the salt-crusted pastures and the sparse, wind-bent hedgerows. Below the precipice, Kettleness Sand reveals a narrow, stony ribbon of shore that the tide claims and releases with rhythmic indifference. A sense of profound isolation clings to the promontory, where the air tastes perpetually of brine and the light shifts with a sudden, silver intensity. Beyond the modern periphery, the ancient profile of the Round Barrow and Gallows Site known as Butter Howe remains a stoic reminder of the long-departed souls who once navigated these bleak, exposed heights. Kettleness survives as a fragment of rugged endurance, holding fast against the encroaching elements in a theatre of grass, shale, and spray.
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About This Kettleness, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kettleness, 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 Kettleness includes coordinates 54.528512, -0.716278, 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 Kettleness is available on the Kettleness 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.