Needwood, Staffordshire Weather
About Needwood, Staffordshire
Needwood preserves a distinctive character shaped by its long association with the expansive royal forest that once defined this part of Staffordshire. It lies 3.8 miles west of Burton upon Trent (from Burton upon Trent: bearing 279°T, OS grid SK 179 242), and is situated north of Rangemore village. The terrain here rises with a quiet, stubborn grace, defined by the ancient agricultural rhythms that have long governed the local pace of life. To the north, the sloping terrain of Hanbury Park Dingle catches the low afternoon sun, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that border the hamlet. The air retains a crisp, open quality, unburdened by the heavy industry that characterises the nearby valley floors. A traveller walking south towards the gentle incline of Higg's Hill might observe how the light shifts across the hedgerows, turning the foliage into a mosaic of muted greys and deep, resonant greens. Needwood retains a solitary, dignified atmosphere, seemingly content to exist at a remove from the busier thoroughfares of the West Midlands. This landscape remains a place of subtle transitions, where the horizon is measured not by monuments, but by the steady, enduring architecture of the woodland and the sky.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Needwood, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Needwood, 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 Needwood includes coordinates 52.815514, -1.735187, 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 Needwood is available on the Needwood 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.