Fobbing, Essex Weather
About Fobbing, Essex
Fobbing keeps its own counsel, a stubborn outcrop of history rising above the low-lying reaches of the Thames Estuary. It lies 1.2 miles east-north-east of Stanford-le-Hope (from Stanford-le-Hope: bearing 57°T, OS grid TQ 715 846). The ancient church of St Michael stands at the heart of Fobbing, its flint-knapped tower watching over the shifting tides that pull at the nearby Vange & Fobbing Marshes Sssi. Beyond the churchyard, the land drains into the intricate, silvered arteries of Fobbing Creek, where the water reflects a sky that feels wider and more restless here than anywhere inland. Salt-tarnished winds scour the hedgerows, carrying the faint, briny memory of a time when the parish served as a haunt for smugglers moving contraband through the hidden sluices. Today, the quiet lanes retain a distinct, solitary character, unbothered by the heavy industry that hums in the distance along the river’s edge. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, bleaching the reeds to straw and defining the sharp edges of the embankments against the horizon. Fobbing remains a place of transition, where the solid clay of the Essex ridge meets the soft, encroaching breath of the wetlands.
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Live animated radar for Fobbing and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Fobbing, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fobbing, 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 Fobbing includes coordinates 51.534676, 0.472249, 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 Fobbing is available on the Fobbing 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.