Little Common, Essex Weather
About Little Common, Essex
Little Common maintains a quiet, unassuming presence amidst the flat, productive fields of the Braintree district. It lies 2.4 miles west-south-west of Braintree (from Braintree: bearing 251°T, OS grid TL 722 216), and is situated south-south-west of Rayne village. The landscape here is defined by an open, expansive horizon where the light catches the turned earth in long, pale streaks during the autumn harvest. To the south-south-west, the orderly rows of the Felstar Vineyard and Brewery offer a sharp contrast to the wild, unkempt hedges that line the narrow country lanes. A short distance to the north-north-east, the Flitch Way Railway Carriage Museum preserves the industrial ghost of a vanished rail line, grounding Little Common in the echoes of steam and iron. Further east, the sprawling expanse of Great Notley Country Park provides a green lung for the region, where the wind moves across the grass with a restless, audible sigh. The pace of life in Little Common remains tethered to the slow rotation of the seasons, indifferent to the hurried transit of the nearby market town. These fields possess a stark, unadorned beauty that rewards the patient observer who stops to watch the evening shadows lengthen across the stubble.
Flight conditions near Little Common. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Little Common and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Little Common, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little Common, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Little Common includes coordinates 51.866785, 0.500999, 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 Little Common is available on the Little Common 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.