Bratoft holds the quiet stillness of the Lincolnshire fens, where the horizon stretches wide and pale under a vast, shifting sky. It lies 4.0 miles north-north-west of Wainfleet All Saints (from Wainfleet All Saints: bearing 339°T, OS grid TF 472 650), and is situated north of Irby in the Marsh village. Low-lying fields define the terrain, marked by the slow, deliberate movement of the Cowcroft Drain as it threads through the surrounding pastures. History lingers in the shadows of the Bratoft Hall Moated Site, where the earth retains the faint, rectangular memory of past dwellings just north of the present lanes. Beneath the expansive dome of the sky, the landscape feels thin and translucent, as if the land itself were merely a thin layer of silt resting upon an ancient, hidden sea. Birdsong rises sharply from the Bratoft Meadows SSSI, a small pocket of protected ground that keeps the rhythm of the seasons more faithfully than the turning of the calendar. Bratoft remains an outlier of calm, defined by the sharp, salt-edged air that drifts in from the nearby coast to polish the edges of every stone and leaf. Life here follows the subtle incline of the topography, where even the slightest rise in the ground offers a vantage point across the flat, productive expanse of the East Midlands.
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Live animated radar for Bratoft and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bratoft, Lincolnshire, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. 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 Bratoft includes coordinates 53.161798, 0.201738, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Bratoft is available on the Bratoft map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Lincolnshire 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.