Saltcoats, Cumbria Weather
About Saltcoats, Cumbria
Saltcoats emerges from the coastal plain as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the relentless, salt-heavy breeze of the Irish Sea. It lies 9.4 miles south-south-east of Egremont (from Egremont: bearing 152°T, OS grid SD 078 971), and is situated north-west of Ravenglass village. The horizon here is vast and stripped of artifice, dominated by the expansive, shifting tides of the Drigg Coast Sssi that pull at the shoreline with a cold, rhythmic persistence. Saltcoats sits at the mercy of this open sky, where the light turns a bruised, metallic grey before the rain arrives from the west. To the east, the landscape softens into the quiet, brackish stillness of Mitebank Marsh, where water and silt settle into a slow, perennial negotiation. The architecture of Saltcoats remains utilitarian and sparse, reflecting a history of endurance against the elements rather than any desire for ornamental display. A low, persistent dampness clings to the stone walls, carrying the faint, sharp tang of brine inland from the dunes. Life in Saltcoats moves in accordance with the tide, indifferent to the encroaching bustle of the modern world.
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Live animated radar for Saltcoats and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Saltcoats, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Saltcoats, 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 Saltcoats includes coordinates 54.361103, -3.419156, 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 Saltcoats is available on the Saltcoats 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.