Great Holland, Essex Weather
About Great Holland, Essex
Great Holland holds a quiet dignity upon the Essex coast, where the salt-heavy air brushes against the weathered brick of its modest homes. It lies 1.5 miles west of Frinton-on-Sea (from Frinton-on-Sea: bearing 259°T, OS grid TM 212 192), and is situated south-south-west of Kirby Cross village. The Great Holland Village Sign stands as a silent sentinel, marking a geography defined more by the shifting tides than by the commerce of nearby neighbours. Beyond the houses, the Holland Haven Marshes SSSi stretch out in a vast, low-lying expanse that catches the pale, northern light in pools of brackish water. Here, the land surrenders to the sky, creating a horizon where the reed beds sway in constant, rhythmic conversation with the wind. The earth beneath these marshes feels ancient and heavy, holding the memory of high tides and the slow reclamation of the coast. Great Holland remains anchored to this landscape, a place where the stillness of the wetlands offers a sharp, clean contrast to the busier paths of the shoreline. The sea is never truly absent, its presence felt in the sharp tang of brine that drifts inland across the fields.
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Live animated radar for Great Holland and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Holland, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Holland, 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 Great Holland includes coordinates 51.828232, 1.209612, 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 Great Holland is available on the Great Holland 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.