Orwell, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Orwell, Cambridgeshire
Orwell holds a quiet dignity within the rolling folds of the South Cambridgeshire landscape, where the chalky earth meets the wide, pale sky of the Fens. It lies 6.0 miles north of Royston (from Royston: bearing 4°T, OS grid TL 362 504), and is situated east-north-east of Wimpole village. Sunlight often catches the warm, honeyed tones of the local clunch stone, a material that once drew labourers to the nearby Orwell Clunch Pit Sssi to extract the very marrow of the hills. A traveller passing through might pause at the Orwell Village Sign, a piece of public art that stands as a singular marker of local identity amidst the expansive fields. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the elevation of Toot Hill offers a vantage point where the wind carries the scent of distant, damp meadows. The proximity of the vast, historic grounds of Wimpole Hall adds a layer of aristocratic grandeur to the horizon, grounding the surroundings in centuries of landed heritage. In the evenings, the shadows lengthen across the lanes, imbuing the brick and timber of Orwell with a soft, melancholic grace. This quietude remains the true signature of the place, reflecting a life lived in harmony with the slow, seasonal shifts of the Cambridgeshire soil.
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Live animated radar for Orwell and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Orwell, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Orwell, 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 Orwell includes coordinates 52.1355, -0.010992, 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 Orwell is available on the Orwell 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.