Cleator, Cumbria Weather
About Cleator, Cumbria
Cleator emerges from the rugged Cumbrian landscape, its grey stone facades catching the low, pale light that often drifts in from the Irish Sea. It lies 1.0 miles south-south-west of Cleator Moor (from Cleator Moor: bearing 194°T, OS grid NY 014 134), and is situated north-east of Woodend village. The River Ehen carves a quiet, persistent path past the older dwellings, its waters mirroring the shifting moods of a sky that rarely stays still for long. To the south, the tranquil expanse of Longland Lake Country Park offers a brief respite, where the reeds sway with a rhythmic, hushed sigh in the damp breeze. Cleator carries the quiet gravity of its industrial past, a legacy of iron ore mining that once defined the heartbeat of these deep, shadowed valleys. Further south, the limestone ridges of Clints Quarry hold the ancient secrets of the earth in their jagged, exposed faces, standing as silent witnesses to the passage of seasons. These slopes and waterways provide a stark, honest beauty, favouring the resilient over the ornamental. The character of Cleator remains tied to this terrain, where the sharp air and the damp, earth-scented wind remind one that life here is lived in close conversation with the elements.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Cleator, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cleator, 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 Cleator includes coordinates 54.507021, -3.523321, 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 Cleator is available on the Cleator 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.