Leesthorpe, Leicestershire Weather
About Leesthorpe, Leicestershire
Leesthorpe emerges from the quiet Leicestershire landscape as a collection of stone and history held within the palm of the East Midlands. It lies 4.3 miles south-east of Melton Mowbray (from Melton Mowbray: bearing 146°T, OS grid SK 791 136), and is situated north-north-east of Pickwell village. The terrain here rises to meet the sky, marked most prominently by the gentle, grassy slopes of Leesthorpe Hill. Sunlight often catches the limestone edges of the local architecture, casting long, amber shadows across the fields as evening approaches. A short distance away, the quiet flow of Burton Brook cuts through the pastures, providing a persistent, low-frequency pulse to the rural silence. The earth here retains a heavy, fertile character, long worked by hands that have shaped the surrounding pastures into orderly squares of green. Leesthorpe remains a place defined by its openness and the vast, unencumbered horizon that stretches toward the distant hills. These fields possess an ancient stillness, where the wind moves through the tall grass with a sound like shifting water.
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About This Leesthorpe, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Leesthorpe, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Leesthorpe includes coordinates 52.714744, -0.830335, 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 Leesthorpe is available on the Leesthorpe 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.