Alnmouth, Northumberland Weather
About Alnmouth, Northumberland
Alnmouth commands the mouth of the River Aln, where the North Sea’s salt-heavy breath meets the quiet curve of the Northumberland coast. It lies 3.9 miles east-south-east of Alnwick (from Alnwick: bearing 113°T, OS grid NU 246 106), and is situated east-south-east of Hipsburn village. The tide pulls back to expose expansive sands, leaving the Alnmouth Saltmarsh and Dunes SSSI to shimmer under a pale, northern light that seems to bleach the very stones of the harbour wall. Above the water, Church Hill rises as a silent sentinel, its grassy slopes holding the memory of a parish church lost to the relentless hunger of a great storm in 1806. Alnmouth once thrived as a bustling port for the export of grain and wool, though now the harbour serves only the small, bobbing craft that dance on the current. The Ferryman’s Hut Museum sits low against the bank, a modest wooden witness to the days when transit across the river was a daily labour of rope and oar. Today, the streets of Alnmouth display a collection of pastel-fronted houses that hold their colour stubbornly against the grey spray of winter gales. These dwellings huddle together, offering a cold-shouldered defiance to the winds that scour the shoreline without pause or pity.
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Live animated radar for Alnmouth and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alnmouth, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alnmouth, Northumberland, 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 Alnmouth includes coordinates 55.389576, -1.612846, in the county of Northumberland, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alnmouth is available on the Alnmouth map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Northumberland 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.