84% chance of a view, clear of the cloud.
Cloud base sits about 347 m above the summit, so the top should stay under a ceiling rather than in it.
Forecast for Friday 16 October, built 2026-10-16 16:22 UTC and rebuilt twice a day. A high number is close to reliable, a low one is barely better than a shrug: how reliable is this?
The hill
- Lists
- Wainwright, Birkett, Fellranger
- Height
- 423 m (4 m of drop)
- Area
- Western Fells
- County
- Cumberland, England
- Grid ref
- NY135061
- OS Landranger
- 89
- Summit
- cairn
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:44 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:13 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.49 hours
About Buckbarrow
Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m (1,388 ft). The fell’s name means ‘The hill of the buck or goat’. It is derived either from the Old English word bucc meaning buck or the Old Norse word bokki meaning a male goat.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 72% | 663 m | 7.1° | 8 NW |
| 08:00 | 75% | 554 m | 6.6° | 9 NW |
| 10:00 | 83% | 709 m | 7.0° | 12 NW |
| 12:00 | 86% | 770 m | 7.2° | 15 WNW |
| 14:00 | 88% | 878 m | 7.1° | 17 WNW |
| 16:00 | 79% | 793 m | 7.3° | 14 NW |
| 18:00 | 94% | none | 7.1° | 16 NNW |
| 20:00 | 94% | 722 m | 6.8° | 17 NNW |
Nearby
Middle Fell · Seatallan · Whin Rigg · Illgill Head · Yewbarrow · Haycock
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