Silecroft, Cumbria Weather
About Silecroft, Cumbria
Silecroft commands a vast, salt-rimmed horizon where the Irish Sea meets the modest rise of the Cumbrian coastline. It lies 3.0 miles west-north-west of Millom (from Millom: bearing 282°T, OS grid SD 123 812), and is situated west-north-west of Kirksanton village. Beyond the quiet cluster of dwellings, the landscape opens into the expansive Shaw Meadow & Sea Pasture SSSI, where the grasses bow perpetually toward the water under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the land itself. A short walk toward the coast reveals Silecroft Beach, a wide, solitary expanse where the sand retains the cold, grey shimmer of polished pewter long after the tide has retreated. The light here has a peculiar quality, sharp and unsparing, which renders the distant silhouettes of the fells with the clarity of a charcoal sketch. Further inland, the stillness is broken only by the thin, persistent song of Moorgill Beck, which snakes through the fields like a vein of liquid silver. Silecroft remains a place where the primary architecture is the weather, and the movement of the clouds dictates the mood of the afternoon more surely than any clock.
Flight conditions near Silecroft. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Silecroft and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Silecroft, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Silecroft, 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 Silecroft includes coordinates 54.219782, -3.345684, 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 Silecroft is available on the Silecroft 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.