Nenthead, Cumbria Weather
About Nenthead, Cumbria
High moorland winds carry the stark, bracing clarity of the Pennines across the rugged elevations of Nenthead. It lies 4.3 miles east-south-east of Alston (from Alston: bearing 113°T, OS grid NY 781 437), and is situated east-north-east of Garrigill village. The landscape surrounding Nenthead is defined by the weathered remnants of a once-furious industrial age, where the earth still holds the quiet gravity of the Lead Mines, Ore Works And Smeltmill At Nenthead. These structures stand as skeletal sentinels against a sky that seems perpetually wide and indifferent to the passage of men. Nearby, the Gillgill Burn cuts a sharp, silver incision through the gritstone, its waters rushing with a cold, insistent urgency toward the lower valleys. The terrain remains part of the Whitesike Mine And Flinty Fell SSSI, a harsh expanse where rare mineralised soils support only the most resilient of mountain flora. Here, the light does not merely fall; it scours the hillsides, revealing the deep, bruised colours of the heather and the pale, unforgiving grey of the exposed rock. Nenthead endures as a place where the memory of heavy toil remains pressed into the very contours of the broken ground.
Flight conditions near Nenthead. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Nenthead and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Nenthead, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Nenthead, 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 Nenthead includes coordinates 54.787904, -2.341532, 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 Nenthead is available on the Nenthead 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.