Pooley Bridge, Cumbria Weather
About Pooley Bridge, Cumbria
Waterways define the character of Pooley Bridge, where the River Eamont flows with a persistent, cold clarity from the northern tip of Ullswater. It lies 4.6 miles south-west of Penrith (from Penrith: bearing 216°T, OS grid NY 470 244), and is situated south-south-east of Dacre village. Within the expansive boundaries of the Lake District National Park, the landscape shifts from the low-lying valley floor to the abrupt, wooded rise of Dunmallard Hill. This prominence guards the northern approach, its slopes concealing the ancient earthworks of the Dunmallard Small Multivallate Hillfort beneath a canopy of oak and fern. The light here has a sharp, northern quality, catching the slate roofs and the limestone facades as if testing their resistance to the frequent mountain rain. Visitors often pause by the Millennium Fish Cross, an echo of older market traditions that once animated the road, before turning their attention toward the water. Pooley Bridge remains a point of departure for steamers, their white hulls cutting through the lake’s surface with a deliberate, mechanical grace. The air carries a faint, sharp scent of damp moss and wet stone, a reminder that the wilder geology of the fells is never more than a few miles away.
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Live animated radar for Pooley Bridge and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Pooley Bridge, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pooley Bridge, 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 Pooley Bridge includes coordinates 54.612321, -2.820963, 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 Pooley Bridge is available on the Pooley Bridge 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.