Long Green, Essex Weather
About Long Green, Essex
Long Green occupies a quiet corner of the Essex landscape where the earth holds the memory of ancient, slow-moving glacial shifts. It lies 2.7 miles north-north-east of Waltham Abbey (from Waltham Abbey: bearing 13°T, OS grid TL 403 047), and is situated west-south-west of Bumble's Green village. The light here seems to catch on the hedgerows in the late afternoon, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that have been worked by hand and machine for centuries. Only a short distance to the south-south-east, the still surface of Great Riddens Pond reflects the changing sky, offering a sanctuary for wildfowl that drift undisturbed through the reeds. Rising slightly to the south-south-west, the slopes of Galley Hill provide a vantage point over the surrounding patchwork of arable land and thickets. The air carries a crispness sharpened by the proximity of the open countryside, free from the heavy hum of modern machinery. Long Green retains a modest, unpretentious character, defined more by the turn of the seasons than by the rush of the nearby arterial roads. The presence of history remains etched into the soil, where the remnants of a World War II bombing decoy near the eastern edge serve as a silent reminder of a turbulent past.
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Live animated radar for Long Green and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Long Green, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Green, 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 Long Green includes coordinates 51.724053, 0.03129, 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 Long Green is available on the Long Green 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.