Salta, Cumbria Weather
About Salta, Cumbria
Salta emerges from the flat, salt-licked horizons of the Solway Plain where the wind dictates the shape of every hawthorn. It lies 4.5 miles west-north-west of Aspatria (from Aspatria: bearing 301°T, OS grid NY 081 455), and is situated south-south-west of Mawbray village. The land here holds a stark, horizontal beauty, caught between the grey pulse of the Irish Sea and the vast, shifting skies of the coast. Only a few hundred metres to the west, the ghosts of the Roman frontier endure at the Dubmill Point Milefortlet, a scheduled monument where legionaries once watched the tide retreat across the sands. Nearby, the Salta Moss SSSI spreads its forty-six hectares of damp, peaty stillness, acting as a refuge for rare flora that thrive in the acidic, oxygen-poor earth. The air tastes of brine and damp grass, carrying the quiet gravity of a place that has long served as a threshold between the solid pasture and the unruly waves. Salta remains a modest collection of dwellings that seem to hunker down against the gales, favouring resilience over ornament. Here, the boundary between the firm ground and the wetland of Dubmill Scar remains blurred, defined by the slow, rhythmic turning of the seasons.
Flight conditions near Salta. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Salta and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Salta, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Salta, 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 Salta includes coordinates 54.796314, -3.42987, 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 Salta is available on the Salta 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.