High Scales, Cumbria Weather
About High Scales, Cumbria
High Scales emerges from the Cumbrian lowlands as a cluster of stone and slate held fast against the prevailing northern winds. It lies 3.7 miles north-east of Aspatria (from Aspatria: bearing 48°T, OS grid NY 188 457), and is situated east of Langrigg village. The landscape surrounding High Scales bears the quiet imprint of ancient drainage, where the nearby Sandraw Beck carves a patient, silver thread through the fields to the west. To the north, the terrain lifts toward the modest prominence of Leadgate Hill, offering a vantage point where the light catches the gritstone walls with a sudden, sharp clarity. History lingers here in the form of the nearby St Mungo’s Castle, a scheduled monument that marks the shifting borders of a long-settled frontier. The land holds the weight of centuries of agricultural toil, its soil yielding to the rhythm of seasonal ploughing and the slow growth of pasture. In the quiet transition between the beck and the rising slopes, High Scales maintains an austere composure, defined by the starkness of its horizons and the persistence of its rural character.
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Live animated radar for High Scales and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This High Scales, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for High Scales, 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 High Scales includes coordinates 54.79974, -3.264612, 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 High Scales is available on the High Scales 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.