Great Tosson, Northumberland Weather
About Great Tosson, Northumberland
Great Tosson commands a rugged, wind-brushed horizon where the shadows of the Cheviot Hills grow long and sharp against the fading light. It lies 2.0 miles west-south-west of Rothbury (from Rothbury: bearing 248°T, OS grid NU 028 005), and is situated south of Thropton village. The landscape here is defined by the quiet authority of Northumberland National Park, which embraces the stone-built remnants of a past that refuses to fully surrender to the earth. To the east, the weathered masonry of Great Tosson Tower House stands as a silent sentinel, its heavy blocks holding a gravity that the surrounding gorse and bracken cannot mimic. High above the modern tracks, the earthworks of the Tosson Burgh univallate hillfort still mark the crest of the ridge, suggesting a time when the horizon itself was the primary boundary of human ambition. The air carries a thin, metallic clarity, sharpened by the nearby presence of the Routing Burn as it carves its path through the gritstone. Great Tosson exists in a state of deliberate endurance, where the stone is as much a part of the geology as the hills that hem it in. Even the old lime kiln nearby seems less a relic of industry and more a natural outcrop, bleached bone-white by decades of exposure to the Northumbrian rain.
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Live animated radar for Great Tosson and surroundings — RainViewer.
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About This Great Tosson, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Tosson, Northumberland, 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 Great Tosson includes coordinates 55.299291, -1.956754, in the county of Northumberland, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Tosson is available on the Great Tosson map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Northumberland 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.