Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire
Flat, wide horizons define the low-lying fens where Prickwillow persists against the relentless sweep of the East Anglian sky. It lies 3.5 miles east-north-east of Ely (from Ely: bearing 72°T, OS grid TL 592 822), and is situated east-north-east of Queen Adelaide village. Water dictates the pulse of the earth here, with the River Great Ouse carving a path through the dark, peaty soil that once challenged the toil of early land-reclaimers. Visitors often pause by the Prickwillow Village Sign, a piece of public artwork that catches the low-slung sun and marks the entrance to this singular, exposed expanse. The landscape remains tethered to its industrial heritage, a memory preserved inside the Prickwillow Museum where the heavy, iron ghosts of drainage engines still command the silence. Beyond the houses, the horizon stretches toward the distant, rolling rise of Quanea Hill, offering a rare verticality in a world dominated by the horizontal. The light in Prickwillow possesses a sharp, unblinking clarity, illuminating the reed beds and the drainage channels that vein the fields like silver wire. Time here moves with the slow, deliberate gravity of the pumps, grounding Prickwillow in a permanence that ignores the frantic pace of the modern world.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Prickwillow, 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 Prickwillow includes coordinates 52.415419, 0.340508, 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 Prickwillow is available on the Prickwillow 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.