Copford Green, Essex Weather
About Copford Green, Essex
Copford Green offers a quiet expanse of Essex landscape defined by low-lying fields and the persistent, slow pulse of rural life. It lies 4.5 miles west-south-west of Colchester (from Colchester: bearing 252°T, OS grid TL 927 226), and is situated south of Copford village. The horizon here is marked by the modest, open stretch of The Green, where the grass holds the pale, thin light of the afternoon with a stark, unadorned clarity. Beyond the road, the surface of Wigleys Pond catches the grey sky, mirroring the stillness of the surrounding hedgerows. History here is quiet and residual, evidenced by the nearby Medieval Moat at Marks Tey Hall which remains a sunken, shadowed memory of older earthworks. The land feels spacious and unhurried, shaped more by the simple passage of the seasons than by the clamour of modern development. Copford Green remains a place of subtle transitions, where the flat fields meet the sky in a way that makes the distance feel both vast and intimate.
Flight conditions near Copford Green. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Copford Green and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Copford Green, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Copford Green, Essex, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. 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 Copford Green includes coordinates 51.869, 0.799006, in the county of Essex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Copford Green is available on the Copford Green map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Essex 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.