Little Waltham, Essex Weather
About Little Waltham, Essex
Little Waltham holds a quiet permanence within the Essex landscape, defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the Chelmer valley. It lies 3.6 miles north of Chelmsford (from Chelmsford: bearing 1°T, OS grid TL 707 129), and is situated east-south-east of Great Waltham village. Sunlight here catches the flint and red brick of local architecture, illuminating a character shaped by centuries of agricultural labour and the steady flow of the river. Beyond the residential lanes, the expansive grounds of Langleys offer a vast, verdant counterpoint to the domestic scale of the streets, where the trees hold the silence of the shifting seasons. Evidence of earlier human presence lingers just beneath the soil, such as at the Settlement Site At Ash Tree Corner, where the past remains a quiet, unremarked companion to modern life. Little Waltham maintains a composure that feels both rooted and detached from the frantic pace of the nearby county town. The air carries the faint, crisp scent of dampened fields, reminding those who walk its paths that the horizon is always wider than the road. Each turn in the lane reveals how Little Waltham balances its history with the unremarkable beauty of a day unfolding in the Eastern region.
Flight conditions near Little Waltham. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Little Waltham and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Little Waltham, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little Waltham, 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 Little Waltham includes coordinates 51.78901, 0.474854, 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 Waltham is available on the Little Waltham 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.