Firbank, Cumbria Weather
About Firbank, Cumbria
Firbank sits as a rugged outcrop of high, wind-bitten pasture overlooking the deep, limestone-scoured valleys of the Lune. It lies 2.4 miles west-north-west of Sedbergh (from Sedbergh: bearing 303°T, OS grid SD 625 942). The land here carries the weight of a hard, ancient geology, where the earth rises in sudden, muscular ridges that catch the first grey light of the Cumbrian dawn. To the east, the dark, stagnant waters of Pipe Dub mirror the shifting clouds, offering a cold contrast to the vibrant, moss-slicked silence of the surrounding fells. George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, famously preached to a vast assembly on the slopes of Firbank Fell in 1652, forever marking the hillside with the gravity of his conviction. Below these heights, the land drops toward the hidden, rushing course of the Ullswheel, where the water carves its path through stone with a persistent, grinding patience. The economy of Firbank remains tethered to the slow, seasonal turn of sheep farming, a life defined by the resilience of the flock against the biting exposure of the peaks. Every stone wall here acts as a boundary against the wild, built by hands that understood the unforgiving nature of a landscape where the horizon is always wider than the hearth.
Flight conditions near Firbank. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Firbank and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Firbank, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Firbank, 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 Firbank includes coordinates 54.342405, -2.57789, 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 Firbank is available on the Firbank 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.