Smithy Moor, South Yorkshire Weather
About Smithy Moor, South Yorkshire
Smithy Moor commands a high, exposed shoulder of land overlooking the steep industrial declivities of the Don Valley. It lies 0.8 miles west-north-west of Stocksbridge (from Stocksbridge: bearing 290°T, OS grid SK 257 989). Sunlight here strikes the gritstone walls with a cold, sharpening clarity, defining the boundaries where the suburban fringe yields abruptly to the wilder, unkempt grasses of the high plateau. Below the ridgeline, the waters of Spring Brook carve a restless, dark path through the deep, shaded fissures of the earth. The air carries a thin, metallic sharpness, a ghost of the furnace fires that once defined the labour of the valley floor. Smithy Moor remains a place of transition, where the rigid lines of twentieth-century housing surrender to the ancient, wind-bitten geography of the Pennine edge. Residents look out toward the expanse of Sheephouse Wood, where the trees lean away from the prevailing gales in a permanent, silent struggle against the sky. It is a landscape that demands a certain stoicism, its character forged by the relentless interplay of high elevation and the encroaching shadow of the hills.
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About This Smithy Moor, South Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Smithy Moor, 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 Smithy Moor includes coordinates 53.486739, -1.613691, 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 Smithy Moor is available on the Smithy Moor 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.