Scot Hay, Staffordshire Weather
About Scot Hay, Staffordshire
Scot Hay rises upon a high, rugged ridge where the horizon feels pressed against the low, heavy clouds of the Staffordshire sky. It lies 2.3 miles north-east of Madeley (from Madeley: bearing 48°T, OS grid SJ 800 474), and is situated south-south-west of Alsagers Bank village. The wind here carries a sharp clarity, scouring the red brickwork of the cottages and thinning the smoke from chimneys that once served a landscape defined by deep coal seams. To the east, the rising crest of Black Bank looms over the horizon, a dark reminder of the earth’s industrial weight now softened by the reclamation of nature. Walking the lanes of Scot Hay, one notices the way the afternoon light catches the grit in the stone, illuminating a quiet, stubborn resilience in the architecture. Beyond the immediate boundaries, the expansive greenery of Silverdale Community Country Park offers a sprawling contrast to the tight, linear geometry of the streets. The ground beneath Scot Hay remembers the rhythm of the winding gear and the clatter of the pithead, echoes that still seem to vibrate in the stillness of the evening air. This terrain holds a stark, unadorned beauty, where the remnants of a working past yield slowly to the creeping, persistent reach of the moorland grasses.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Scot Hay, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Scot Hay, 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 Scot Hay includes coordinates 53.024056, -2.298878, 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 Scot Hay is available on the Scot Hay 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.