Smithfield, Cumbria Weather
About Smithfield, Cumbria
Smithfield emerges from the Cumbrian plains as a cluster of quiet stone and enduring agricultural purpose. It lies 4.3 miles east-south-east of Longtown (from Longtown: bearing 116°T, OS grid NY 441 655), and is situated north-north-west of Scaleby village. Low light often catches the mossy perimeter of nearby Dikenook, where the silent, crumbling masonry of historic ruins serves as a reminder of the centuries that have drifted over these fields. To the south-south-west, the damp, tangled expanse of Scaleby Moss holds a deep, dark stillness that dictates the slow pace of the seasons. Smithfield remains anchored to the rhythms of the soil, surrounded by horizons that are vast, unadorned, and scrubbed clean by the northern wind. The landscape here does not clamour for attention, preferring instead the muted palette of winter stubble and the sudden, sharp silver of rainfall. Residents observe the changing sky above the flat terrain, where the clouds seem to possess a greater weight than the earth itself. Every boundary line and hedgerow in Smithfield tells a story of patient cultivation, marking a place where the modern world feels distant and thin.
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About This Smithfield, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Smithfield, 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 Smithfield includes coordinates 54.981245, -2.873868, 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 Smithfield is available on the Smithfield 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.