Longwood, West Yorkshire Weather
About Longwood, West Yorkshire
Longwood commands a high, rugged vantage point where the Pennine winds scour the gritstone edges of the West Yorkshire landscape. It lies 2.2 miles west of Huddersfield (from Huddersfield: bearing 272°T, OS grid SE 109 165), and is situated north-east of Lower Wellhouse village. The steep, terraced streets of Longwood reflect a heritage hewn from the textile industry, where the rhythmic clatter of looms once defined the passage of the working day. Stone cottages cling to the incline, their darkened masonry drinking in the shifting Atlantic light that sweeps across the valley floor. To the east, the Longwood Tower stands as a solitary sentinel, offering a stark silhouette against the bruised purple of a gathering sky. Below the ridge, the waters of Longwood Brook carve a frantic, silver thread through the heather and moss of the surrounding moorland. This geography demands a sturdy constitution, as the incline dictates the pace of every footfall upon the uneven pavements. Longwood remains a place of gravity and hard edges, where the architecture serves as a blunt, honest record of generations who laboured under an expansive and often unforgiving northern sun.
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About This Longwood, West Yorkshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Longwood, 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 Longwood includes coordinates 53.645238, -1.835594, 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 Longwood is available on the Longwood 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.