Great Glen, Leicestershire Weather
About Great Glen, Leicestershire
Great Glen commands the rolling topography of the Leicestershire landscape, where the heavy, loam-rich earth yields to a horizon painted in hues of soft, autumnal ochre. It lies 5.8 miles south-east of Leicester (from Leicester: bearing 134°T, OS grid SP 656 979), and is situated east-north-east of Newton Harcourt village. The architecture here retains a quiet gravity, with stone and brick structures absorbing the low-slung, silvery light that frequently spills across the Midland plains. A short distance away, the Medieval Manorial Fishponds at the Banks offer a silent, water-bound reflection of a more archaic age, their still surfaces mirroring the shifting clouds. Great Glen remains a place of steady transit and quiet industry, marked by the presence of significant educational institutions that anchor its daily pulse. To the south-west, the Wistow Rural Centre draws those who seek the tactile pleasures of artisanal craft and open-air respite amidst the verdant fields. The land itself possesses an unforced elegance, an expanse where the sky feels vast and the breeze carries the faint, crisp scent of working soil.
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Live animated radar for Great Glen and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Glen, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Glen, 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 Great Glen includes coordinates 52.575032, -1.033123, 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 Great Glen is available on the Great Glen 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.