Orchard Park emerges from the flat Cambridgeshire horizon as a modern expanse of residential architecture and purposeful design. It lies 1.9 miles north of Cambridge (from Cambridge: bearing 358°T, OS grid TL 447 614), and is situated south-south-east of Impington village. The afternoon sun casts long, lean shadows across the clean geometry of the streets, where the air feels thin and sharp against the open sky. Residents often walk toward the Singing-Cloud, a public artwork that catches the restless breeze and turns the simple movement of air into a quiet, metallic hum. Nearby, the Histon Road Sssi offers a small, protected sanctuary where the soil retains the damp, earthy scent of a landscape less touched by construction. Orchard Park balances this structured stillness with a proximity to the ancient, scholarly weight of the university city just to the south. Each evening, the light fades into a pale, translucent indigo, reflecting off the glass facades and the paved surfaces of the thoroughfares. This transition of light brings a temporary hush to the neighbourhood, softening the edges of the contemporary builds against the deepening dark.
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Live animated radar for Orchard Park and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Orchard Park, 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 suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Orchard Park includes coordinates 52.23258, 0.118423, 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 Orchard Park is available on the Orchard Park 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.