Little Clifton, Cumbria Weather
About Little Clifton, Cumbria
Little Clifton keeps a watchful eye over the low-lying fields of Cumbria where the industrial past lingers in the cooling air. It lies 3.4 miles east of Workington (from Workington: bearing 88°T, OS grid NY 055 287), and is situated south-west of Bridgefoot village. The landscape bears the scars of former toil, most notably where the Little Clifton Open Heap Coke Producing Bases And Associated Slag Heap remain as silent, earthbound monuments to a time of fire and iron. Below this broken ground, the waters of Lostrigg Beck wind through the valley, carving a path that seems indifferent to the remnants of coal-smoke and furnace heat. The light here often catches the damp, dark stone of the older cottages, which appear to have grown directly from the heavy, clay-rich soil. To the east, the rising profile of Ox Hill offers a steady, green horizon that anchors the surrounding meadows against the shifting Cumbrian sky. Little Clifton retains a quiet, sturdy character, defined by the narrow lanes that follow the ancient contours of the land rather than the straight lines of modern maps. The local houses face the weather with a stubborn grace, marking a place where the memory of heavy industry has long since surrendered to the slow, persistent return of the wild.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Little Clifton, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little Clifton, 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 Little Clifton includes coordinates 54.644743, -3.464945, 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 Little Clifton is available on the Little Clifton 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.