Cottam, Lancashire Weather
About Cottam, Lancashire
Cottam emerges from the Lancashire landscape as a place where modern residential ambition meets the persistent, quiet reach of the surrounding fields. It lies 1.8 miles west of Fulwood (from Fulwood: bearing 263°T, OS grid SD 502 326), and is situated south of Woodplumpton village. The morning light here often catches the dew upon Miller Green, casting a silver clarity over the grass that seems to sharpen the edges of the newer brickwork. A short distance away, the metal form of the Two Hounds Hunting Wild Boar stands as a strange, silent sentinel, its rusted limbs forever frozen in a chase that echoes the older, wilder history of these plains. Beyond the domestic boundaries, the slow, meandering pulse of Savick Brook draws a dark, liquid line through the earth, cooling the air as it journeys toward the sea. Cottam retains a certain reserve, its streets laid out with a geometric precision that contrasts sharply with the untamed, ancient sprawl of the sky above. The horizon remains wide and unencumbered, allowing the weather to roll in with a theatre of grey and gold that commands the attention of any watchful passerby. Such clarity of space grants the residents a sense of being both tethered to the city of Preston and entirely held by the open, breathing expanse of the Fylde.
Flight conditions near Cottam. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Cottam and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Cottam, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cottam, 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 Cottam includes coordinates 53.787872, -2.757297, 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 Cottam is available on the Cottam 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.