Langbar, North Yorkshire Weather
About Langbar, North Yorkshire
Langbar claims a high, watchful vantage point where the wind scours the heather and the light turns thin and silver against the gritstone. It lies 2.5 miles north-north-west of Ilkley (from Ilkley: bearing 332°T, OS grid SE 097 511), and is situated east-south-east of Beamsley village. The horizon here is vast and indifferent, dominated by the exposed shoulders of the moorland that seem to hold the sky at a distance. Below the steep inclines, the tumbling waters of Black Foss Waterfall carve a narrow, insistent path through the rock, echoing with a hollow, percussive rhythm. Nearby, the reeds of Delves Tarn shiver in the low-lying damp, creating a quiet, boggy sanctuary for the curlew and the lapwing. Langbar remains a place of sparse stone walls and stubborn pastures, where the architecture of the land itself—the ancient ridges and the sudden, sharp declivities—outshines the work of human hands. Grey clouds often fracture against the summits, spilling a sudden, cold clarity onto the fields that makes every blade of grass appear momentarily sharpened. This is a landscape of hard edges and wide, grey-blue silences that require a particular kind of endurance from those who keep to its heights.
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Live animated radar for Langbar and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Langbar, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Langbar, 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 Langbar includes coordinates 53.956656, -1.852279, 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 Langbar is available on the Langbar 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.