Wythburn, Cumbria Weather
About Wythburn, Cumbria
Wythburn remains a slender, quiet presence defined by the steep, rising shoulders of the fells that enclose it. It lies 6.1 miles north-north-west of Ambleside (from Ambleside: bearing 326°T, OS grid NY 322 128), and is situated north-north-west of Grasmere village. This gathering of stone and sky occupies a profound position within the Lake District National Park, where the air tastes of damp slate and persistent, cold water. To the east, the rhythmic trickling of Birkside Gill descends the slopes, a constant, shivering silver thread that animates the silence of the valley floor. Wythburn watches the light shift across the darkening heights of High Crag, where the sun seems to linger before falling abruptly behind the jagged western horizon. The land here feels ancient and indifferent, marked by the weathered stones of the Round Cairn On Dunmail Raise that hold the memory of older, forgotten movements. Such geography demands a certain humility, forcing the eye to trace the long, muscular lines of the hills rather than the fleeting works of men. It is a place where the earth asserts its primacy, leaving Wythburn as a small, resilient punctuation mark in a vast, mountainous sentence.
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About This Wythburn, Cumbria Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wythburn, 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 Wythburn includes coordinates 54.506404, -3.048086, 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 Wythburn is available on the Wythburn 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.