Plumpton, Cumbria Weather
About Plumpton, Cumbria
Plumpton commands a quiet authority over the Cumbrian plains, where the sky seems to stretch wider than the earth beneath it. It lies 4.3 miles north-north-west of Penrith (from Penrith: bearing 344°T, OS grid NY 496 370), and is situated east-north-east of Brockleymoor village. The landscape bears the heavy, invisible weight of antiquity, most notably where the remains of Old Penrith (Voreda) Plumpton Wall rest just to the north, its eighteen hectares of earthworks holding the secrets of a Roman past. A mile or so to the south-east, the slopes of Plumpton Head rise with a gentle, persistent gravity, acting as a silent sentinel over the fields. The light here has a peculiar, translucent quality, often catching the stone walls in a way that suggests they were built to catch the sun’s final, weary prayers. Further south, the Roman Camp North West Of Balmer's Farm marks the land with the precision of a forgotten legion, a faint geometric ghost upon the green. Plumpton remains a place of deep, terrestrial stillness, where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and the long, slow history of the north.
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About This Plumpton, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plumpton, 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 Plumpton includes coordinates 54.725805, -2.783367, 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 Plumpton is available on the Plumpton 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.