Birkby, Cumbria Weather
About Birkby, Cumbria
Sunlight catches the low, rolling contours of the Cumbrian landscape, illuminating the quiet lanes that trace the perimeter of Birkby. It lies 1.7 miles east-north-east of Maryport (from Maryport: bearing 67°T, OS grid NY 060 375), and is situated south-west of Crosby village. The air here carries a sharp, saline clarity, an invisible tide pulled inland from the nearby Solway coast. Just a stone’s throw away, the open expanse of The Green offers a soft, grassy threshold where the horizon seems to press closer to the earth. Beneath the topsoil, the earth holds the silent, geometric ghosts of the Settlement W Of Birkby, a scheduled monument that marks the ancient human impulse to claim this wind-swept ground. Northward, the land rises toward the crest of Brown Rigg, a hummock of earth that watches over the transition from pasture to the broader, salted sky. Birkby remains a place of subtle shifts, where the history of the frontier is not a monument to be read, but a persistent pulse in the rhythm of the fields. Through the changing seasons, the light refracts off the surrounding stone walls, casting long, lean shadows that measure the day with an elegant, unforced precision.
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Live animated radar for Birkby and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Birkby, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Birkby, Cumbria, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Birkby includes coordinates 54.724064, -3.460786, in the county of Cumbria, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Birkby is available on the Birkby map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cumbria 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.