Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire
Fen Drayton occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the South Cambridgeshire landscape where the horizon seems to pull the wide sky down to meet the earth. It lies 2.3 miles south-east of St Ives (from St Ives: bearing 143°T, OS grid TL 336 684), and is situated east of Fenstanton village. The horizon here is dominated by the silvered surfaces of the nearby Springhill Lagoon, which reflects the shifting, pale light of the fens with a clarity that renders the clouds twice as vast. Beyond the quiet lanes, the land retains the memory of its industrial past, scarred and reshaped by the gravel workings that once defined the local economy. Fen Drayton holds a particular stillness on autumn afternoons, when the air grows thin and the damp scent of the water edges into the gardens. A short distance to the north, the Low Hill Bowl Barrow sits as a silent, earthen anchor in the fields, a reminder of the ancient people who walked these same heavy soils. The low, horizontal lines of the architecture here suggest a place comfortable with its own modesty, unbothered by the frantic pace of the outside world. Residents often find their gaze drawn toward the water, where the reeds sway in a rhythmic, whispered dialogue with the wind. Fen Drayton remains a quiet sentinel of the flatlands, defined more by the quality of its light than by any grand monument or pretension.
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Live animated radar for Fen Drayton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fen Drayton, 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 Fen Drayton includes coordinates 52.29768, -0.041482, 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 Fen Drayton is available on the Fen Drayton 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.