Tollesbury, Essex Weather
About Tollesbury, Essex
Salt-crusted timber and the low, silver horizon define the character of Tollesbury. It lies 3.5 miles west-south-west of West Mersea (from West Mersea: bearing 250°T, OS grid TL 956 104), and is situated east-south-east of Tolleshunt D'Arcy village. The Blackwater Estuary pulls at the shoreline here, its vast tidal flats catching the pale East Anglian light in a mirror of cooling mercury. Where the land yields to the sea, the sprawling expanse of Tollesbury Wick Marshes offers a sanctuary for wildfowl, their cries echoing across the brackish reed beds. Tollesbury retains a rugged maritime air, its history tied firmly to the boat-building trades and the silent, weathered hulls that once braved the North Sea. Walking toward the water, one encounters the Lightship, a rusted sentinel that serves as a quiet reminder of the navigation required to traverse these complex, shifting channels. The winds here carry a biting, honest clarity, scrubbed clean by the distance they travel across the open water before reaching the village lanes. Each season alters the palette of the saltings, turning the greens of summer into the burnt ochre and deep violet of a winter dusk.
Flight conditions near Tollesbury. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Tollesbury and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Tollesbury, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tollesbury, 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 Tollesbury includes coordinates 51.758611, 0.833243, 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 Tollesbury is available on the Tollesbury 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.