Great Marton, Lancashire Weather
About Great Marton, Lancashire
Great Marton holds the quiet, low-lying character of the Lancashire plain, where the flat horizon draws the sky down close to the pavement. It lies 1.5 miles south-east of Blackpool (from Blackpool: bearing 140°T, OS grid SD 324 346). The light here possesses a translucent, maritime quality, filtered through the salt-heavy air that drifts in from the Irish Sea to dampen the brickwork of local homes. To the north-east, the expansive greenery of Stanley Park, Blackpool, acts as a verdant lung for the district, its Grade II* listed landscapes offering a sharp contrast to the nearby suburban grid. Great Marton maintains a distinct identity, separated from the clamour of the coast by a subtle shift in the terrain that favours gardens and quiet residential lanes over the high-energy sprawl of the resort. Residents often walk the short distance to the park, where the stillness of the lake and the precision of the historic flowerbeds offer a respite from the industrial echoes of the past. The geography remains dominated by the legacy of ancient mosslands, which underpin the ground with a soft, yielding resilience beneath the modern tarmac. This peripheral position grants Great Marton a tempered stillness, allowing the rhythm of the changing seasons to register more clearly than in the denser urban centres nearby.
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Live animated radar for Great Marton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Marton, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Marton, 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 Great Marton includes coordinates 53.803864, -3.02752, 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 Great Marton is available on the Great Marton 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.