Mepal commands a low, wide horizon where the fenland sky presses heavily against the flat, dark earth. It lies 4.6 miles south-east of Chatteris (from Chatteris: bearing 140°T, OS grid TL 441 807), and is situated north of Sutton village. The light here has a peculiar, scouring quality, sharpening the edges of the Mepal Village Sign that marks the threshold of the road. Beyond the houses, the land slopes gently toward the Gault Hole, where water gathers in the hollows to mirror the shifting clouds of the Eastern region. To the north, the Crooked Drain carves a deliberate, silver line through the fields, draining the soil to sustain the rhythm of local agriculture. History hides in the periphery, marked by the silent, rounded mounds of ancient barrows that rise like forgotten thoughts above the horizon. Mepal remains a place of deep, open perspective, where the wind carries the scent of damp peat and the distant, rhythmic call of birds inhabiting the reed beds.
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Live animated radar for Mepal and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mepal, 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 Mepal includes coordinates 52.406168, 0.117763, 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 Mepal is available on the Mepal 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.