Whissonsett, Norfolk Weather
About Whissonsett, Norfolk
Whissonsett asserts its presence across the open, arable expanses of the Breckland district, where the sky claims a vast and heavy portion of the horizon. It lies 3.8 miles south of Fakenham (from Fakenham: bearing 183°T, OS grid TF 918 234), and is situated west-north-west of Horningtoft village. The light here has a peculiar, translucent quality, catching the flint-work of old walls and turning the fields into a shifting palette of ochre and bruised green. A visitor might find the Whissonsett Village Sign acting as a quiet sentinel, marking a pause in the steady, rhythmic labour of the surrounding farms. To the south-west, the ghost of the Deserted Village, Godwick, lingers as a Scheduled Monument, where the earth humps and hollows in memory of dwellings long surrendered to the plough. These traces of earlier lives sit in stark relief against the modern, quiet industry of the fields, where the wind moves with an uninterrupted, restless intent. Whissonsett remains anchored to this ancient soil, its character defined by the slow, seasonal turn of the furrow and the distant, cooling shade of Horningtoft Wood Sssi. The land here does not offer itself easily, but rewards those who watch the way the evening shadow stretches across the dry, flinty ground.
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About This Whissonsett, Norfolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Whissonsett, 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 Whissonsett includes coordinates 52.774955, 0.842079, 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 Whissonsett is available on the Whissonsett 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.