Holystone, Tyne and Wear Weather
About Holystone, Tyne and Wear
Holystone emerges from the North Tyneside landscape as a quiet expanse where modern residential life meets the lingering echoes of an industrial past. It lies 1.5 miles east-north-east of Longbenton (from Longbenton: bearing 75°T, OS grid NZ 302 703), and is situated south of Backworth village. The light here often catches the low, rolling contours of the land, casting long shadows that trace the boundaries between suburbia and the open fields. To the south, the expansive greenery of the Rising Sun Country Park offers a reservoir of calm, where the wind moves through reclaimed meadows once marked by the grit of coal extraction. Holystone maintains a steady, unremarkable grace, its streets unfolding beneath an expansive northern sky that changes colour with the shifting North Sea weather. A short distance to the west, the remnant ruins of a World War Two anti-aircraft factory stand as silent, weathered sentinels of a more urgent era. These structures provide a stark, skeletal contrast to the orderly brickwork of the nearby homes. Life in Holystone moves with the quiet rhythm of a place that has exchanged the clamour of the pit head for the stillness of a suburban evening.
Flight conditions near Holystone. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Holystone and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Holystone, Tyne and Wear Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Holystone, Tyne and Wear, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. 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 Holystone includes coordinates 55.02699, -1.527667, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Holystone is available on the Holystone map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Tyne and Wear 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.