Sunderland, Lancashire Weather
About Sunderland, Lancashire
Sunderland holds a lonely, salt-scrubbed vigil where the Lune estuary widens to meet the shivering expanse of the Irish Sea. It lies 3.5 miles south of Heysham (from Heysham: bearing 169°T, OS grid SD 426 562), and is situated west of Glasson village. The light here possesses a peculiar, translucent quality, reflecting off the shifting mudflats of Town Skear to bleach the horizon into a pale, indeterminate grey. At low tide, the intricate, vein-like channels of Bazil Sand emerge, revealing a landscape that breathes with the rhythmic, tidal pulse of the coast. A solitary Horizon Line Chamber stands watch nearby, its aperture framing the vast, indifferent sky in a way that makes the surrounding earth feel strikingly finite. Sunderland remains defined by this proximity to the water, where the air tastes perpetually of brine and the silted remnants of a maritime past. The tide dictates the rhythm of the day, dictating how the water retreats from the shore to leave behind a silent, glistening mirror. One feels the weight of the open sky pressing down upon the fields, grounding Sunderland in a geography that belongs more to the sea than the solid, unchanging land.
Flight conditions near Sunderland. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Sunderland and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Sunderland, Lancashire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sunderland, 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 Sunderland includes coordinates 53.998968, -2.875936, 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 Sunderland is available on the Sunderland 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.