Great Blencow, Cumbria Weather
About Great Blencow, Cumbria
Great Blencow reveals itself through the low, soft light of the Cumbrian morning, where stone walls trace the contours of a landscape long shaped by the patient hands of farmers. It lies 3.8 miles west-north-west of Penrith (from Penrith: bearing 289°T, OS grid NY 456 323), and is situated north-east of Greystoke village. The air here carries the crisp, damp scent of the nearby Great Blencow Meadows & Fen SSSI, where eight hectares of marshy ground sustain a delicate, shifting palette of sedges and wildflowers. Just a short walk away, the Blencow Old Hall Moated Tower House stands as a quiet sentinel of the past, its weathered stone reflecting the muted greys and greens of the surrounding fields. The land drops away into gentle slopes that seem to hold the warmth of the sun even as the shadows of late afternoon lengthen across the pasture. Great Blencow remains defined by this intimacy between the built environment and the wild, unhurried growth of the surrounding fens. Every lane and boundary line possesses a distinct, rugged honesty, grounded in the limestone and heavy earth that underpin the northern reaches of the county.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Blencow, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Blencow, 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 Great Blencow includes coordinates 54.683269, -2.843784, 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 Great Blencow is available on the Great Blencow 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.