Head Crag, Cumbria Weather
About Head Crag, Cumbria
Head Crag emerges from the Cumbrian landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the shifting moods of the Duddon Estuary. It lies 3.1 miles south-south-east of Broughton in Furness (from Broughton in Furness: bearing 160°T, OS grid SD 229 827), and is situated north-north-west of Kirkby-in-Furness village. The land here holds the damp, silvered light of the coast, where the sky seems to press closer to the earth than it does inland. To the north-north-east, Head Crag Marsh draws the tides into its intricate veins, creating a salt-brushed boundary that dictates the pace of the local seasons. Nearby, the ruins of Well House offer a skeletal reminder of past husbandry, their weathered stones harmonising with the grey slate of the surrounding fells. The terrain slopes with a deliberate, rugged grace toward the water, where the air tastes of brine and ancient, unyielding rock. Banks Gill Beck carves a narrow, shadowed path through the lower ground, its steady movement providing a constant, low-frequency pulse beneath the silence of the hills. Every fence line and drystone wall at Head Crag serves as a testament to the persistent labour of those who have long worked this challenging, beautiful margin of the North West.
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Live animated radar for Head Crag and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Head Crag, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Head Crag, 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 Head Crag includes coordinates 54.234828, -3.18377, 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 Head Crag is available on the Head Crag 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.