Flookburgh, Cumbria Weather
About Flookburgh, Cumbria
Flookburgh keeps a watchful eye over the shifting tides of the Cartmel Peninsula, where the salt air bites with a crisp, northern edge. It lies 2.8 miles west-south-west of Grange-over-Sands (from Grange-over-Sands: bearing 242°T, OS grid SD 366 758), and is situated north-east of Ravenstown village. The landscape here is defined by the flat, expansive reach of the coast, where the horizon dissolves into the grey-blue mirror of the estuary. North of the dwellings, the gentle rise of Peter Hill commands the view, its slopes holding the silent remnants of an ancient past. Flookburgh once held a royal charter for its weekly market, a privilege that lingers in the wide, open character of its central streets. Nearby, the grand estate of Holker Hall spreads its vast, manicured greenery across the landscape, providing a stark, elegant contrast to the rugged marshes of the shore. The light in this corner of Cumbria is restless, forever chasing shadows across the fields and the distant, glistening mudflats. Every winter, the geese arrive to claim the low-lying pastures, their calls echoing over the quiet lanes that lead toward the sea.
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About This Flookburgh, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Flookburgh, 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 Flookburgh includes coordinates 54.174408, -2.972341, 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 Flookburgh is available on the Flookburgh 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.