Little Marfit Head, North Yorkshire Weather
About Little Marfit Head, North Yorkshire
Little Marfit Head commands an austere, wind-swept prominence where the high moorland grasses bow in perpetual deference to the prevailing northern air. It lies 6.5 miles north-north-east of Pickering (from Pickering: bearing 33°T, OS grid SE 852 929), and is situated north-east of Levisham village. This remote outpost rests firmly within the North York Moors National Park, surrounded by a terrain that speaks of ancient, heavy earth and long-forgotten boundaries. To the west, the profound, amphitheatre-like depression of the Hole of Horcum SSSI draws the eye across a vast, geological silence that has remained undisturbed for centuries. Little Marfit Head shares this rugged horizon with the prehistoric dyke known as Horcum Dike, a linear earthwork that carves a deliberate, melancholic path across the heather. The light here possesses a singular, thin clarity, often casting sharp shadows that reveal the subtle, rhythmic contours of the limestone bedrock beneath the thin soil. Life at Little Marfit Head is defined by this exposure, where the sky claims more of the visual field than the stone or the sparse vegetation ever could. The quietude of the surrounding moors provides a stark, honest backdrop to the enduring resilience of the landscape.
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About This Little Marfit Head, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little Marfit Head, 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 Little Marfit Head includes coordinates 54.324866, -0.690198, 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 Little Marfit Head is available on the Little Marfit Head 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.