Glooston, Leicestershire Weather
About Glooston, Leicestershire
Glooston occupies a quiet pocket of the Leicestershire landscape where the heavy clay earth holds the history of centuries in its deep, dark furrows. It lies 5.4 miles north-north-east of Market Harborough (from Market Harborough: bearing 13°T, OS grid SP 750 958), and is situated south of Goadby village. The terrain here rises in modest swells, with the prominent ridge of Crossburrow Hill standing sentinel just half a mile to the south, its slopes catching the long, amber light of late afternoon. Glooston maintains an unassuming presence, defined by stone walls and ironstone buildings that seem to have grown directly from the soil they occupy. A short distance to the east, the earth retains the subtle, rippling scars of the Medieval Village Earthworks, Fishponds And Mill Leat At Stonton Wyville, marking where previous generations laboured and survived. The local air feels sharpened by the proximity of the open fields, where the quality of light shifts rapidly across the horizon, casting pale, fleeting shadows upon the rooftops. These rural surroundings remain largely agricultural, reflecting a tradition of land management that has outlived the fashions of more modern commerce. Every lane leading out of Glooston offers a stark, clear perspective of the surrounding topography, revealing a landscape that prioritises the slow rotation of the seasons over the haste of the wider world.
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About This Glooston, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Glooston, 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 Glooston includes coordinates 52.555378, -0.89433, 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 Glooston is available on the Glooston 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.