East Tilbury, Essex Weather
About East Tilbury, Essex
East Tilbury keeps a steady watch over the northern banks of the Thames, where the river air tastes faintly of salt and industrial memory. It lies 2.6 miles east-north-east of Tilbury (from Tilbury: bearing 60°T, OS grid TQ 679 785), and is situated south-south-east of Linford village. The horizon here is vast and low, dominated by the wide, shifting sky that seems to press down upon the flat expanse of the Mucking Marshes. Within this landscape, the Thomas Bata Memorial Park offers a quiet respite, its grounds holding the echoes of a twentieth-century industrial dream that once defined the local working life. Sturdy brick remnants of the Second World War Anti-Aircraft Battery at Bowaters Farm stand as silent, heavy sentinels against the encroaching reeds. East Tilbury carries the distinct character of a place forged by both the heavy machinery of the past and the persistent, creeping damp of the estuary. Sunlight catches the metallic sheen of the nearby waterways, turning the surface of the ditches into ribbons of hammered pewter. Visitors who walk the perimeter of the village find that the ground hums with the subterranean weight of history, caught between the ambition of past factories and the slow, rhythmic reclamation of the marshes.
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Live animated radar for East Tilbury and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This East Tilbury, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for East Tilbury, 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 East Tilbury includes coordinates 51.480749, 0.416745, 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 East Tilbury is available on the East Tilbury 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.