Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire Weather
About Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire
Barkestone-le-Vale anchors the flat, fertile expanse of the Leicestershire plains with a quiet, enduring gravity. It lies 5.6 miles south-east of Bingham (from Bingham: bearing 125°T, OS grid SK 779 348), and is situated north-east of Plungar village. The horizon here is vast and indifferent, pressing down upon the tiled roofs and the sturdy stone of St John the Baptist Church with a heavy, atmospheric weight. Sunlight often catches the moisture rising from the nearby Vale of Belvoir, casting a bruised, indigo light over the fields that renders the earth almost metallic in its intensity. To the south-west, the Grantham Canal SSSI stretches like a dormant vein through the landscape, its stagnant surface reflecting the pale, shifting clouds of the East Midlands. Barkestone-le-Vale maintains a character forged by the relentless cycles of agriculture, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more than any human clock. The local architecture possesses a stark, utilitarian honesty, lacking the ornamental frippery of more decorative hamlets. Here, the air tastes of damp soil and distant coal smoke, a sensory remnant of the industrial history that once pulsed through these low-lying lands.
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About This Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Barkestone-le-Vale, Leicestershire, 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. 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 Barkestone-le-Vale includes coordinates 52.905497, -0.842691, in the county of Leicestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Barkestone-le-Vale is available on the Barkestone-le-Vale map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Leicestershire 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.