Castor, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Castor, Cambridgeshire
Castor holds a quiet authority over the limestone ridges that rise above the Nene valley. It lies 4.2 miles west of Peterborough (from Peterborough: bearing 269°T, OS grid TL 124 983), and is situated east-south-east of Ailsworth village. The architecture of Castor wears the grey, weathered skin of local stone, a material that seems to absorb the pale, thin light of the Cambridgeshire winters. Beneath the surface of the quiet fields, the earth keeps the secrets of the Castor Village Roman Sites, where the foundations of antiquity wait in the silence of the soil. To the south, the Splash Dike drifts through the landscape, its slow, rhythmic movement marking the passage of seasons across the flood plains. The parish church, dedicated to St Kyneburgha, anchors the skyline with a Norman tower that has watched the horizon sharpen and fade for centuries. Beyond the residential lanes, the vast stretch of the Roman Site in Normangate Field suggests a scale of human ambition that has long since returned to the grass. Castor remains a place where the weight of the past is not a burden, but a constant, grounding presence in the modern day.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Castor, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Castor, 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 village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Castor includes coordinates 52.57154, -0.341744, 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 Castor is available on the Castor 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.