Great Houghton, South Yorkshire Weather
About Great Houghton, South Yorkshire
Great Houghton commands a rise above the Dearne Valley, where the morning light catches the slate roofs and stone gables in a sharp, clean clarity. It lies 1.4 miles west-north-west of Thurnscoe (from Thurnscoe: bearing 295°T, OS grid SE 433 063), and is situated north-east of Little Houghton village. The horizon here is defined by the steady, rolling presence of Hargate Hill, a silent witness to the changing seasons as they wash over the fields. Great Houghton carries the weight of its industrial past with a quiet dignity, particularly where the Houghton Main Colliery Memorial stands as a stark, iron-wrought sentinel against the sky. Below these slopes, the land dips toward the Dearne Valley Wetlands, a vast expanse of water and reed where the air hums with the movement of migratory birds. The soil here, once busy with the pulse of deep-seam coal mining, now supports a quieter rhythm of reclaimed earth and rewilded spaces. In the cooling dusk, the shadows lengthen across the lanes, revealing the enduring character of a place that has learned to live in harmony with its own transformation. Every brick and path in Great Houghton seems to hold a memory of the men who laboured in the dark, yet the landscape itself remains open, bright, and persistent.
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About This Great Houghton, South Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Houghton, South 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. Air quality data includes PM2.5, PM10, ozone and the UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI 1-10) as used by DEFRA and the Met Office. 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 Houghton includes coordinates 53.552234, -1.347609, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Houghton is available on the Great Houghton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the South 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.