St Olaves, Norfolk Weather
About St Olaves, Norfolk
St Olaves commands the low-lying reaches where the Norfolk landscape softens into the quiet, reed-fringed margins of the River Waveney. It lies 5.1 miles west-south-west of Gorleston-on-Sea (from Gorleston-on-Sea: bearing 242°T, OS grid TM 460 993), and is situated south-west of Fritton village. The light here possesses a pale, saline clarity, reflecting off the water to bleach the ancient stone ruins of St Olave’s Priory that linger just north of the centre. These crumbling arches, once a silent refuge for Augustinian canons, now stand as skeletal sentinels overlooking the vast, damp expanse of the Scale Marshes. Beyond the priory, the land stretches toward the horizon in a mosaic of peat and pasture, where the earth feels soft and yielding under a heavy, expansive sky. Local life moves in concert with the shifting tides of the nearby waterways, where the reeds lean perpetually toward the sea. The St Olaves Village Sign serves as a modest landmark, marking a point of arrival where the frantic pace of the coast finally dissolves into the stillness of the fens. Here, the air carries the scent of brackish water and damp soil, grounding the spirit in a geography defined by the slow, inevitable pull of the river.
Flight conditions near St Olaves. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for St Olaves and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This St Olaves, Norfolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Olaves, Norfolk, 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 St Olaves includes coordinates 52.536513, 1.626196, in the county of Norfolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of St Olaves is available on the St Olaves map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Norfolk 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.