Little Swinburne, Northumberland Weather
About Little Swinburne, Northumberland
Little Swinburne holds the quiet, spare authority of a landscape where the wind dictates the shape of the hawthorn and the stone. It lies 8.4 miles north of Hexham (from Hexham: bearing 5°T, OS grid NY 948 775), and is situated east-north-east of Gunnerton village. The air here carries a crystalline sharpness, refined by the expanse of the surrounding Northumberland hills that seem to hold the sky at a deliberate distance. To the southwest, the surface of Little Swinburne Reservoir acts as a dark, polished mirror, reflecting the passing clouds in a silence that feels almost prehistoric. Beneath the thin soil, the earth preserves the ghosts of a shrunken medieval village, where the faint, humped outlines of abandoned dwellings and fishponds trace a long-forgotten pattern of human industry. Little Swinburne endures as a place of vast, open horizons, where the low sun casts long, skeletal shadows across the moorland grasses. The muted grey of the local masonry harmonises with the rugged character of the terrain, suggesting a permanence that ignores the rapid pulse of more crowded districts. Time here is measured not by clocks, but by the slow movement of light across the ridges and the patient, cyclical return of the seasons.
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About This Little Swinburne, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little Swinburne, 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 Little Swinburne includes coordinates 55.092407, -2.08168, 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 Little Swinburne is available on the Little Swinburne 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.