Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
Great Shelford remains a place where the low horizons of the Cambridgeshire landscape pull the eye across fields that have held human stories since the Neolithic era. It lies 3.8 miles south of Cambridge (from Cambridge: bearing 170°T, OS grid TL 462 523), and is situated west-north-west of Stapleford village. The River Cam meanders through the low-lying meadows, carrying the cool, damp breath of the fens toward the chalky rise of Stone Hill. Beneath the soil, the silent, earth-bound traces of the Causewayed Enclosure at Great Shelford mark a time when early inhabitants first claimed this verdant ground. Great Shelford retains the quiet gravity of a parish that has watched the seasons turn over centuries, its flint-walled buildings absorbing the pale, slanted light of an Eastern winter. The proximity of Clarke’s Hill provides a gentle elevation from which the entire basin appears as a patchwork of ancient agrarian industry. Residents move with the steady pulse of the railway line that connects them to the academic towers of the nearby university, yet the local character remains defined by the deep, alluvial richness of the valley floor. Great Shelford endures as a testament to the persistence of the land itself, where the modern commuter finds a home amidst the ghosts of an Iron Age past.
Flight conditions near Great Shelford. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Great Shelford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Shelford, 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 Great Shelford includes coordinates 52.15035, 0.135756, 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 Great Shelford is available on the Great Shelford 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.