Thornton, Lincolnshire Weather
About Thornton, Lincolnshire
Thornton reveals itself as a quiet assembly of dwellings tethered to the flat, expansive horizon of the Lincolnshire landscape. It lies 1.5 miles south-west of Horncastle (from Horncastle: bearing 219°T, OS grid TF 244 677), and is situated south of Thimbleby village. The light here pulls long, thin shadows across the fields, catching the moisture that rises from the earth long after the sun has begun its descent. To the north-east, the elevation of Langton Hill offers a vantage point from which the patchwork fields around Thornton appear as a hushed, muted tapestry of greens and browns. The air carries a stillness that seems to preserve the memory of the Roman influence nearby, where the ancient stone remnants of Banovallum still hold their ground against the creeping ivy. Thornton occupies a space where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life more surely than any clock. The low, heavy sky of the East Midlands often presses against the rooflines, lending the brickwork a profound sense of permanence. Each lane in Thornton traces a path through a geography defined by slow, patient agriculture and the quiet persistence of the soil.
Flight conditions near Thornton. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Thornton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Thornton, Lincolnshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Thornton, 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 hamlet. 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 53.192332, -0.138364, 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 Thornton is available on the Thornton 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.