Thornton, Leicestershire Weather
About Thornton, Leicestershire
Thornton holds a quiet dignity within the Leicestershire landscape, where the land rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of pasture and heavy clay. It lies 3.8 miles east-south-east of Ibstock (from Ibstock: bearing 113°T, OS grid SK 464 078), and is situated east of Bagworth village. The parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul acts as a sturdy anchor for the eye, its stone tower catching the pale, thin light that often drifts across the Midlands. To the east, the waters of Thornton Reservoir mirror the shifting grey of the sky, providing a broad, still expanse that breaks the monotony of the hedgerows. A short distance to the south-west, the tangled thickets of Bagworth Heath Woods offer a tangle of birch and bracken that feels older than the tarmac roads connecting the neighbouring lanes. Thornton retains a certain reserve, its houses built of local brick that seems to darken and deepen in colour when the rain sweeps in from the west. The air here carries the faint, sharp scent of damp earth and the distant, grinding industry of nearby stone extraction. Life in Thornton moves by the slow turning of the seasons, marked by the changing temper of the fields rather than the clamour of passing crowds.
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About This Thornton, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Thornton, 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 Thornton includes coordinates 52.66658, -1.314736, 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 Thornton is available on the Thornton 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.