Peldon, Essex Weather
About Peldon, Essex
Peldon commands a quiet authority over the flat, salt-licked horizons of the Essex coast, where the heavy sky often seems to press down upon the low-lying fields. It lies 2.6 miles north-north-west of West Mersea (from West Mersea: bearing 336°T, OS grid TL 990 164), and is situated east-north-east of Great Wigborough village. The landscape here is defined by an openness that permits the wind to scour the earth, carrying the sharp, briny scent of the nearby Bonner's Saltings across the road verges. Peldon remains a place of sparse, singular beauty, where the light shifts across the marshland with a restless, silver intensity. A short walk to the north, the modest rise of St Ives Hill offers a vantage point over this austere geography, revealing how the land yields reluctantly to the encroaching tides. The architecture of the parish church stands as a sturdy anchor against the vastness, its masonry bearing the weathered patina of centuries of exposure. Life in Peldon follows the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding agricultural plains, indifferent to the encroaching clamour of the modern world.
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Live animated radar for Peldon and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Peldon, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Peldon, 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 Peldon includes coordinates 51.810918, 0.886465, 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 Peldon is available on the Peldon 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.