Walpole Cross Keys, Norfolk Weather
About Walpole Cross Keys, Norfolk
Walpole Cross Keys emerges from the flat expanse of the Fens, a place where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the heavy, silver light of an Norfolk afternoon. It lies 6.0 miles east-south-east of Long Sutton (from Long Sutton: bearing 116°T, OS grid TF 519 190), and is situated north-east of Walpole St Andrew village. The earth here is dark and yielding, a testament to the patient labour of those who reclaimed this silt-rich soil from the encroaching tides. To the north, the Walpole Cross Keys Village Sign stands as a solitary sentinel, marking a threshold where the road bends into the vast, open sky. Beyond the domestic boundaries, the Old Inclosed Marsh holds a quiet, damp stillness, its reeds shivering in the breeze like the strings of a forgotten instrument. The landscape is defined by the relentless geometry of drainage ditches and the distant, low hum of agricultural machinery working the fields. Silence settles over the land when the sun dips low, casting long, bruised shadows across the lanes that lead toward the coast. Walpole Cross Keys remains a place of profound atmospheric clarity, caught between the salt-whispering winds of the Wash and the grounded, enduring industry of the surrounding plains.
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About This Walpole Cross Keys, Norfolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Walpole Cross Keys, 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 Walpole Cross Keys includes coordinates 52.747597, 0.250153, 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 Walpole Cross Keys is available on the Walpole Cross Keys 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.