Upper Rissington, Gloucestershire Weather
About Upper Rissington, Gloucestershire
High plateaus of the Cotswolds cradle the expansive, windswept horizons that define Upper Rissington. It lies 3.8 miles south-south-east of Stow-on-the-Wold (from Stow-on-the-Wold: bearing 168°T, OS grid SP 204 197), and is situated east of Little Rissington village. This former Royal Air Force station retains a distinct structural clarity, its modern residential streets laid out across a limestone ridge that catches the first pale light of dawn. To the north, the ancient profile of Wyck Beacon rises as a silent sentinel, grounding the modern architecture in the deep, unyielding earth of the prehistoric landscape. Eastward, the terrain tilts toward the hidden folds of Westcote Hill, where the wind carries a sharp, clean scent of crushed clover and flint. Upper Rissington commands a vantage point that feels almost celestial, offering wide, uninterrupted vistas that shrink the surrounding valleys into mere creases of shadow. The atmosphere here is one of brisk openness, where the sky claims a greater portion of the world than the stone and mortar below. Daily life continues beneath this vast, shifting canopy, punctuated by the rhythmic, seasonal transformations of the surrounding agricultural fields.
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About This Upper Rissington, Gloucestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Upper Rissington, Gloucestershire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Upper Rissington includes coordinates 51.876126, -1.703854, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Upper Rissington is available on the Upper Rissington map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Gloucestershire 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.