Ravenscar, North Yorkshire Weather
About Ravenscar, North Yorkshire
Ravenscar commands a singular, windswept prominence upon the North Yorkshire cliffs, where the North Sea meets the raw edge of the moors. It lies 7.9 miles south-east of Whitby (from Whitby: bearing 140°T, OS grid NZ 979 012), and is situated south-south-east of Robin Hood's Bay village. Ancient earthworks endure in the silence near the coast, where the Round Barrow 100M North Of Church Road Farm marks a horizon long occupied by those who watched the tides. Below the jagged precipices, the restless waters churn against a shoreline that has seen the rise and fall of ambitious industrial dreams. Ravenscar remains defined by the vast, open sky, which casts a shifting, ethereal pallor over the heather and gorse. To the east, the remains of the Ravenscar WW2 Radar Station stand as a stark, concrete reminder of a more urgent era when the horizon was scanned for shadows. The wind here carries a persistent, salt-heavy chill that strips the landscape of ornamentation, leaving only the essential bones of rock and grass. Such isolation invites a profound contemplation of the elements, where the horizon seems to stretch infinitely beyond the reach of human endeavour.
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About This Ravenscar, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ravenscar, 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 Ravenscar includes coordinates 54.397306, -0.492773, 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 Ravenscar is available on the Ravenscar 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.