Hales, Staffordshire Weather
About Hales, Staffordshire
Hales reveals itself as a quiet spread of Staffordshire earth, defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons across its fields. It lies 2.3 miles east of Market Drayton (from Market Drayton: bearing 93°T, OS grid SJ 713 339), and is situated north-north-west of Chipnall village. Ancient boundaries linger here, most notably where the earth remembers the Roman occupation at the site of Hales Roman Villa, a silent witness to a more industrious past. To the north, the landscape darkens with the memory of the Battle of Blore Heath 1459, where the terrain still holds the weight of a fractured kingdom. Hempmill Brook carves a thin, silver thread through the pastures, its waters moving with a persistent, cold clarity that drains the high ground. The light here often feels thin and pale, catching the ridges of the surrounding soil before vanishing behind the hedgerows. Hales remains a place of deep, terrestrial stillness, where the modern world seems to falter at the parish edge. Those who walk these paths find that Hales offers little more than the wind, the heavy clay, and the long, lingering shadows of the afternoon.
Flight conditions near Hales. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Hales and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Hales, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hales, Staffordshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Hales includes coordinates 52.902315, -2.427842, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Hales is available on the Hales map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Staffordshire 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.