Carrshield, Northumberland Weather
About Carrshield, Northumberland
Carrshield endures as a rugged outpost of stone and grit, carved into the high, sweeping expanse of the North Pennines. It lies 5.4 miles east of Alston (from Alston: bearing 81°T, OS grid NY 802 477), and is situated north-north-east of Nenthead village. The landscape here is defined by the Allendale Moors SSSI, where the horizon stretches wide and indifferent under a sky that often feels heavy with the coming rain. Beneath the surface, the earth still bears the faint, scarred memory of lead mining, with the ruins of the Carrshield Lead Mines and Ore Works lingering in the quiet damp like the bones of a forgotten industry. A short distance away, the land dips into the valley of The Bottoms, where the water runs clear and cold over dark, ancient shale. In the autumn, the light across the moors thins to a sharp, brittle clarity, illuminating the moss-covered walls that divide the fields into precise, lonely rectangles. Carrshield remains a place of profound solitude, where the wind holds a singular, mournful authority over the heather and the stone.
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About This Carrshield, Northumberland Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carrshield, 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 Carrshield includes coordinates 54.824244, -2.308468, 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 Carrshield is available on the Carrshield 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.