Seascale, Cumbria Weather
About Seascale, Cumbria
Seascale draws the restless salt-spray of the Irish Sea against its long, grey shingle banks. It lies 6.2 miles south-south-east of Egremont (from Egremont: bearing 161°T, OS grid NY 040 011), and is situated north-west of Drigg village. Seascale Beach stretches out as a wide, tidal expanse where the light often turns the water into a sheet of hammered pewter. Beyond the promenade, the landscape flattens into the low, salt-crusted saltmarshes of Seascale Scar, where the tide leaves behind intricate, branching patterns in the dark silt. The horizon is punctuated by the stark, industrial silhouette of the Windscale Pile 1 chimney, a reminder of the nuclear legacy that defines the wider landscape here. Inland, the flat, windswept fields offer little shelter from the prevailing westerlies that scour the coast. The quiet rhythm of the place is dictated by the ebb and flow of the tide rather than the frantic pace of the modern world. Here, the air carries a persistent, bracing dampness that clings to the stone facades of the Victorian houses.
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About This Seascale, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Seascale, 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 Seascale includes coordinates 54.396542, -3.479821, 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 Seascale is available on the Seascale 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.