Port Carlisle, Cumbria Weather
About Port Carlisle, Cumbria
Salt-crusted winds sweep across the Solway Firth to touch the quiet, linear houses of Port Carlisle. It lies 8.6 miles north of Wigton (from Wigton: bearing 353°T, OS grid NY 241 621), and is situated east-south-east of Bowness-on-Solway village. The horizon here is vast and pale, where the sky merges with the shifting mudflats of Bowness Marsh in a blur of bruised grey and silver. Port Carlisle holds the memory of its nineteenth-century ambition, when a canal connected the harbour to the inland city of Carlisle, though now only the ghosts of trade remain in the hushed, expansive basin. Just a short distance away, the low, damp ground of Kirkland Scar shelters a delicate, secret world of reeds and wading birds that thrive in the brackish silence. The air carries the sharp, clean scent of the tide, a reminder that the land is forever yielding to the insistent pulse of the sea. Time seems to gather in the hollows of the landscape, lingering longer here than in the frantic centres of industry. Port Carlisle remains a place of edges, defined by the meeting of firm earth and the wide, unforgiving water.
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Live animated radar for Port Carlisle and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Port Carlisle, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Port Carlisle, 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 Port Carlisle includes coordinates 54.9478, -3.186351, 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 Port Carlisle is available on the Port Carlisle 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.