Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire
Queen Adelaide traces its humble origins to the expansion of the nineteenth-century railway, serving as a quiet witness to the engineering ambitions that once sliced through the flat Cambridgeshire horizon. It lies 1.7 miles east-north-east of Ely (from Ely: bearing 69°T, OS grid TL 566 814), and is situated south-east of Chettisham village. The landscape here is defined by a vast, watery openness, where the low-slung sun casts long, skeletal shadows across the drained fens during the winter months. Just a short distance to the south-west, the waters of Sandall's Cut flow with a deliberate, sluggish grace, reflecting the pale sky in a mirror of silt and reeds. Beyond the immediate embankments, the Ely Pits and Meadows SSSI provides a sprawling sanctuary of biodiversity that anchors the local ecology against the encroachment of modern transit. Queen Adelaide maintains a character defined more by the rhythmic passing of trains and the hum of the nearby cathedral city than by the clamour of central commerce. The horizon feels remarkably expansive, a testament to the reclaimed marshland that stretches toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the cathedral towers. This quiet corner of the district remains a place where the heavy, humid air of the fens dictates the pace of life, grounding the inhabitants in a geography that has been shaped by centuries of hydrological labour.
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About This Queen Adelaide, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Queen Adelaide, 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 Queen Adelaide includes coordinates 52.408802, 0.301047, 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 Queen Adelaide is available on the Queen Adelaide 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.