Grasmere, Cumbria Weather
About Grasmere, Cumbria
Grasmere commands the high, green basin where the air holds the cool, sharp scent of ancient slate and rushing water. It lies 3.1 miles north-west of Ambleside (from Ambleside: bearing 306°T, OS grid NY 336 075), and is situated north-east of Chapel Stile village. Protected by the sprawling reach of the Lake District National Park, the terrain rises in rugged fells that seem to pull the low clouds against their granite flanks. Easedale Beck cuts through the landscape with a persistent, silver urgency, carving a path toward the lower valley floor. Visitors often walk the short distance to find William Wordsworth’s Grave, where the simple stone markers rest under the watchful shade of yew trees. The light here has a peculiar, heavy clarity, turning the surface of Grasmere into a dark mirror for the surrounding peaks. Moss Parrock offers a quiet space to observe the interplay of shadow and sun as they shift across the stone walls of the surrounding cottages. Grasmere remains a place where the stillness of the mountains dictates the rhythm of the day, indifferent to the haste of the modern world.
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About This Grasmere, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Grasmere, 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 Grasmere includes coordinates 54.459229, -3.025083, 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 Grasmere is available on the Grasmere 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.