St Osyth, Essex Weather
About St Osyth, Essex
St Osyth commands a low-lying horizon where the flat expanse of the Essex coast meets the grey, shifting tides of the North Sea. It lies 2.4 miles east-south-east of Brightlingsea (from Brightlingsea: bearing 110°T, OS grid TM 123 156), and is situated north-north-west of Seawick village. The salt-crusted air drifts inland to soften the flint walls of the ancient monastic site, where the remains of St Osyth's Priory stand as a skeletal monument to centuries of quiet devotion. Beyond the crumbling stone of the mid-C16 mansion, the land flattens into marshy pastures that hold the pale, diffused light of the eastern sky. St Osyth keeps its own counsel, marked by the steady, dark presence of St Osyth's Priory parkland which buffers the modern world from the weight of its medieval foundations. Nearby, the still, reflective surface of Seal Pond mirrors the passing clouds, offering a hollow silence that contrasts with the rhythmic rustle of reeds in the coastal wind. St Osyth remains defined by these margins, where the boundary between the firm earth and the encroaching water is always shifting under the influence of the moon.
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Live animated radar for St Osyth and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This St Osyth, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Osyth, 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 St Osyth includes coordinates 51.799238, 1.077704, 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 St Osyth is available on the St Osyth 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.