Town Head, North Yorkshire Weather
About Town Head, North Yorkshire
Town Head clings to the verdant rise of the Ribblesdale landscape, where the limestone bedrock exerts a silent, bony pressure beneath the thin, grazing pastures. It lies 3.3 miles south-south-east of Settle (from Settle: bearing 167°T, OS grid SD 830 583), and is situated west-north-west of Long Preston village. The terrain here rises sharply toward Borks Hill, a feature that catches the low, slanted light of winter afternoons and holds it against the darkening eastern sky. Waters from the River Ribble (Long Preston Deeps) SSSI trace a slow, serpentine path through the valley floor, their currents often choked with the rich, alluvial silt of the floodplains. Town Head remains defined by this hydrological proximity, where the damp, heavy air of the meadows meets the sharp, scouring winds blowing down from the higher fells. Small drystone walls demarcate the fields with a rigid, geometric precision, serving as the only true architecture in a vista dominated by grass and cloud. Residents here observe the changing seasons through the subtle colour shifts of the sedge and the persistent, rhythmic arrival of wading birds returning to the wetlands. Life at Town Head is a quiet negotiation with the elements, dictated more by the saturation of the soil than by the encroaching pace of the modern world.
Flight conditions near Town Head. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Town Head and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Town Head, North Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Town 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 Town Head includes coordinates 54.020826, -2.259814, 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 Town Head is available on the Town 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.