Ashurst, Lancashire Weather
About Ashurst, Lancashire
Ashurst rises as a singular ridge of high ground, looking out over the industrial heart of West Lancashire with a quiet, watchful composure. It lies 1.0 miles north of Skelmersdale (from Skelmersdale: bearing 359°T, OS grid SD 487 077). The elevation here draws the light differently, catching the low winter sun on its slopes long after the lower valleys have surrendered to the grey shadows of dusk. To the west, the wooded hollow of Cobb’s Clough carves a deep, secret fissure through the earth, where the damp scent of moss and rotting leaves lingers in the stillness. Further along the crest, Ashurst’s Beacon stands as a sentinel of stone, marking a site where fires once warned of encroaching danger across the flat plains below. Modern residential streets now cling to the contours of the hill, their brickwork softened by the persistent, wind-blown damp of the North West. The landscape retains a stark, open character, feeling less like a conventional suburb and more like a high-altitude outpost exposed to the shifting moods of the Irish Sea. On clear days, the horizon stretches far beyond the local rooftops, grounding Ashurst in a wide, expansive geography that humbles the scale of its own quiet lanes.
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Live animated radar for Ashurst and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Ashurst, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ashurst, Lancashire, 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 Ashurst includes coordinates 53.563704, -2.775239, in the county of Lancashire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Ashurst is available on the Ashurst map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Lancashire 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.