Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire
Alconbury Weald rises from the flat, expansive plains of Huntingdonshire as a modern ambition built upon the ghosts of a former airfield. It lies 3.4 miles north-north-west of Huntingdon (from Huntingdon: bearing 331°T, OS grid TL 210 765), and is situated north-north-east of Little Stukeley village. The horizon here is vast and unyielding, a wide sky that presses down upon the grid of new roads and burgeoning greenways. A Northrop F-5E Tiger II stands sentinel as public artwork, its sharp, metallic silhouette catching the pale light and anchoring the site to its aeronautical past. Beyond the perimeter of the new housing, the landscape softens toward the quiet earth of the Duck Decoy Site in Hermitage Wood, where the shadows of ancient woodland offer a stark contrast to the clean lines of recent construction. Alconbury Weald maintains a singular character, defined by the tension between the industrious hum of its development and the persistent, heavy silence of the surrounding fen-edge fields. Winter light often drains the colour from the brickwork, leaving the architecture to assert itself against the grey, churning clouds that drift in from the North Sea. The land remains a restless transition between the memory of engines and the quiet progress of a new century.
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About This Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Alconbury Weald includes coordinates 52.373529, -0.222687, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alconbury Weald is available on the Alconbury Weald map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cambridgeshire 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.