Jaywick, Essex Weather
About Jaywick, Essex
Jaywick emerges from the flat, salt-licked horizons of the Essex coast as a place defined by its fragile proximity to the North Sea. It lies 1.5 miles west-south-west of Clacton-on-Sea (from Clacton-on-Sea: bearing 250°T, OS grid TM 153 139), and is situated east-north-east of Seawick village. Low-lying marshlands and shifting dunes create a landscape where the sky feels unusually vast, casting a pale, washed-out light over the modest rooftops. Near the shoreline, the Jaywick Sands beach stretches out in a wide, grey-toned expanse that absorbs the rhythmic thrum of the tide. History lingers here in the form of Martello Tower D, a stoic, circular sentinel that has monitored the shifting sands and the encroaching water since the Napoleonic era. The wind carries a persistent, briny sharpness, scouring the edges of the Clacton Cliffs & Foreshore Sssi where the land slowly yields its geological secrets to the waves. Jaywick maintains a singular character, shaped by the tension between the enduring strength of its coastal defenses and the relentless, restless movement of the sea.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Jaywick, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Jaywick, 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 Jaywick includes coordinates 51.782413, 1.120206, 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 Jaywick is available on the Jaywick 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.