Houghton, Cumbria Weather
About Houghton, Cumbria
Houghton holds the quiet gravity of a place where the Cumbrian sky seems to press closer to the earth. It lies 2.2 miles north of Carlisle (from Carlisle: bearing 9°T, OS grid NY 408 592), and is situated west-south-west of Brunstock village. The land here rises in gentle, insistent swells, carrying the weight of centuries beneath a thin veil of pasture and hedgerow. To the north, the modest waters of School Sike trace a cold, silver line through the fields, carving a rhythmic path that barely disturbs the silence of the surrounding meadows. A short distance to the southeast, the earth conceals the fractured, slumbering masonry of Hadrian’s Wall, where Roman ambition once anchored itself against the restless horizon. Houghton occupies a space where the ancient borders of empire fade into the persistent, living pulse of modern agricultural life. Sunlight catches the stone of the older cottages, illuminating a texture of grit and lime that has weathered the northern gales with stoic indifference. The character of Houghton remains defined by this intersection of deep, buried history and the unyielding, open light of the Solway Plain.
Flight conditions near Houghton. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Houghton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Houghton, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Houghton, 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 Houghton includes coordinates 54.924377, -2.923892, 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 Houghton is available on the Houghton 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.