Shilbottle, Northumberland Weather
About Shilbottle, Northumberland
Shilbottle commands a sturdy presence upon the Northumberland landscape, its rooftops gathering against the wide, restless Northumbrian sky. It lies 2.8 miles south of Alnwick (from Alnwick: bearing 169°T, OS grid NU 195 086), and is situated north-east of Newton on the Moor village. Stone cottages retain the grit of an industrial past, their walls echoing the long-vanished rhythm of deep-shaft coal mining that once defined the local pulse. To the south-west, the rise of Hillhead breaks the horizon, offering a vantage point where the wind carries the salt-sharp scent of the distant coast. A short distance to the north-east, the remains of the Shilbottle Lime Kiln stand as a hollowed, limestone sentinel, bleached pale by decades of rain and sun. The light here has a peculiar clarity, sharpening the edges of the fields and turning the surrounding grasses into a sea of muted bronze during the waning hours of the afternoon. Shilbottle maintains an air of quiet endurance, where the heavy silence of the earth is only occasionally disturbed by the passage of birds or the shifting of the breeze across the high ground. Life here moves with the plain, honest gravity of a place that has long known the weight of tools and the cycle of the seasons.
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About This Shilbottle, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shilbottle, 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 Shilbottle includes coordinates 55.371534, -1.69253, 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 Shilbottle is available on the Shilbottle 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.