Crockleford Heath, Essex Weather
About Crockleford Heath, Essex
Crockleford Heath emerges from the quiet Essex clay, a modest collection of habitations defined by the steady, unpretentious pulse of the Tendring landscape. It lies 2.8 miles east-north-east of Colchester (from Colchester: bearing 76°T, OS grid TM 039 264), and is situated south-east of Fox Street village. The terrain here holds a particular stillness, where the low sun catches the damp edges of the fields and turns the winter stubble into thin lines of pale gold. To the northwest, the Salary Brook carves a narrow, winding path through the heavy earth, its waters reflecting the grey clarity of the eastern sky. The horizon is marked by the distant, rising mass of John de Bois Hill, which anchors the view and provides a subtle weight to the otherwise level horizon. Crockleford Heath maintains a character formed by this proximity to open, working land, where the wind carries the scent of turned soil and the sharp, clean air of the nearby reservoirs. One observes how the light lingers longer on the hedges here, defining the boundaries of the paddocks with a crisp, geometric precision. Life in Crockleford Heath moves in rhythm with the passing seasons, observing the slow transition of the flora rather than the frantic pace of the neighbouring market town.
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About This Crockleford Heath, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crockleford Heath, 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 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 Crockleford Heath includes coordinates 51.899405, 0.962806, 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 Crockleford Heath is available on the Crockleford Heath 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.