Gawthrop, Cumbria Weather
About Gawthrop, Cumbria
Gawthrop occupies a quiet fold of the land where the limestone grip of the earth softens into the verdant floor of the valley. It lies 3.7 miles south-east of Sedbergh (from Sedbergh: bearing 143°T, OS grid SD 692 873), and is situated west-north-west of Dent village. The stone walls here hold the chill of the morning long after the sun has climbed over the high shoulders of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Cold, clear water from Oliver Beck flows past the threshold of the houses, a constant, low-frequency pulse in an otherwise hushed landscape. To the east, the rush of Nettle Pot Gill adds a sharper note to the air, carrying the scent of damp moss and wet grit from the fells. Gawthrop remains a place of hard edges and soft mosses, where the architecture of the drystone wall defines the boundary between the wild moor and the human hearth. Light here has a peculiar, thin quality, tracing the grey masonry until the buildings appear to be pulling the very colour from the sky. Every heavy slab of slate and gritstone seems to anchor Gawthrop firmly against the weight of the prevailing wind.
Flight conditions near Gawthrop. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Gawthrop and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Gawthrop, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gawthrop, 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 Gawthrop includes coordinates 54.281225, -2.473728, 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 Gawthrop is available on the Gawthrop 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.