High Flatts, West Yorkshire Weather
About High Flatts, West Yorkshire
High Flatts occupies a high, windswept ridge where the low-slung stone cottages seem to catch the first grey light of the Pennine dawn. It lies 3.3 miles north-west of Penistone (from Penistone: bearing 320°T, OS grid SE 211 073), and is situated east-south-east of Birds Edge village. The land here slopes away in long, muscular folds, offering a vantage point that commands the horizon toward the rugged profile of Castle Hill. High Flatts retains the quiet gravity of its Quaker heritage, with a meeting house that has witnessed centuries of silence beneath the shifting Yorkshire skies. Beyond the drystone walls, the landscape opens into a patchwork of pasture and rough grazing, interrupted only by the distant, mirrored surface of Square Wood Reservoir. The wind carries a sharp, clean clarity that scours the gritstone facades, lending the architecture an austere and enduring dignity. In the cooler months, the horizon feels vast and unsparing, as if the very air were refined by the altitude of these exposed northern heights.
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About This High Flatts, West Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for High Flatts, West 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 High Flatts includes coordinates 53.562571, -1.682781, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of High Flatts is available on the High Flatts map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the West 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.