Grayrigg, Cumbria Weather
About Grayrigg, Cumbria
Grayrigg holds the quiet, stubborn weight of the Cumbrian fells within its rugged, stone-ribbed landscape. It lies 4.7 miles east-north-east of Kendal (from Kendal: bearing 57°T, OS grid SD 579 971), and is situated east-north-east of Meal Bank village. The earth here rises sharply toward the heights of Bowland's Hill, where the thin, silver light of the north catches the rough grass and turning bracken. Below these slopes, the cold, clear pulse of Lambrigg Beck carves a path through the limestone, a constant movement in an otherwise still geography. Grayrigg remains defined by the austere beauty of its high pastures, where the wind carries a sharp, clean scent of rain and mountain peat. The architecture of the region reflects this exposure, with farmsteads built of local gritstone that seems to emerge directly from the hillside. As the day wanes, the shadows lengthen across the valley floor, turning the landscape into a study of muted greys and deep, bruised purples. There is a profound, unadorned honesty in the way the land meets the sky, leaving little room for artifice in the lives of those who work these slopes.
Flight conditions near Grayrigg. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Grayrigg and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Grayrigg, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Grayrigg, 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 Grayrigg includes coordinates 54.367981, -2.648958, 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 Grayrigg is available on the Grayrigg 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.