Preston, Northumberland Weather
About Preston, Northumberland
Preston reveals itself through the low, insistent light of the Northumbrian coast, where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 7.7 miles north of Alnwick (from Alnwick: bearing 360°T, OS grid NU 185 255), and is situated east of Ellingham village. A solitary, crenellated silhouette defines the horizon here, as Preston Tower commands the immediate landscape with a stoic, defensive gravity that has outlasted centuries of border unrest. Beyond the stone, the land stretches toward the rising bulk of Chat Hill, where the air grows thin and sharp against the cheek. The fields surrounding Preston hold the silence of a long agricultural patience, broken only by the thin, metallic call of birds circling the nearby heights. Water drains quietly toward the coast, shaping the hidden folds of the terrain into a mosaic of shadowed grasses and exposed rock. History here is not a narrative but a physical weight, pressed into the very architecture of the limestone walls that mark the boundaries of the fields. To walk these paths is to feel the sudden, quiet pressure of a horizon that refuses to be tamed by the passing of modern seasons.
Flight conditions near Preston. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Preston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Preston, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Preston, 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 Preston includes coordinates 55.523534, -1.707329, 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 Preston is available on the Preston 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.