Great Plumpton, Lancashire Weather
About Great Plumpton, Lancashire
Great Plumpton emerges from the flat, industrious expanse of the Fylde as a cluster of quiet habitations defined by the relentless openness of the Lancashire sky. It lies 2.7 miles west-north-west of Kirkham (from Kirkham: bearing 286°T, OS grid SD 385 333), and is situated south of Weeton village. The horizon here is dominated by a profound lack of verticality, save for the subtle, grassy elevations of Derby Hill and Hall Hill that rise like gentle swells in a green, solidified sea. Light behaves differently in this low-lying geography, stretching long shadows across the fields that seem to amplify the solitude of the lanes. Great Plumpton maintains a character tethered to the rhythm of the surrounding agriculture, where the soil holds the damp, heavy scent of the coastal plain. In the cooler months, the air carries a sharp, salt-edged clarity that sharpens the edges of the hedgerows and the distant, muted lines of the landscape. This is a place where the passage of time is measured not by grand architecture, but by the slow rotation of crops and the way the wind moves unimpeded across the open, working earth.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Plumpton, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Plumpton, 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 Plumpton includes coordinates 53.792822, -2.934648, 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 Plumpton is available on the Great Plumpton 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.