Slack, Cumbria Weather
About Slack, Cumbria
Slack emerges from the rugged topography of the North West as a quiet collection of stone dwellings carved into the high pastures of the Pennines. It lies 5.4 miles south-east of Sedbergh (from Sedbergh: bearing 136°T, OS grid SD 717 858), and is situated south-east of Dent village. The landscape surrounding Slack remains cradled by the sweeping grandeur of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, where the horizon is defined by the sharp, ancient silhouettes of limestone scars. Immediately to the south, the delicate, moisture-rich grasses of Deepdale Meadows SSSI provide a sanctuary for rare flora that thrive in the damp, cool air of the high valley floor. To the north-west, the waters of Yellow Gill carve their persistent, silver path through the hillside, their rhythmic bubbling a constant companion to the solitude of the terrain. The air here holds a peculiar clarity, a sharp and bracing quality that renders the distant crags of the Dales with an almost unnerving precision. Slack stands as a testament to a life governed by the changing seasons and the slow, inexorable turning of the weather across the open fells. Visitors who traverse the paths near Slack often find their gaze drawn to the rugged contours of the landscape, where the ancient, weathered masonry of the buildings seems to have grown directly from the dark, unforgiving earth.
Flight conditions near Slack. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Slack and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Slack, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Slack, 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 Slack includes coordinates 54.267637, -2.435402, 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 Slack is available on the Slack 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.