Elson, Shropshire Weather
About Elson, Shropshire
Elson emerges from the Shropshire landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the low, heavy light that clings to the Shropshire plain. It lies 1.1 miles north-west of Ellesmere (from Ellesmere: bearing 305°T, OS grid SJ 384 358), and is situated east-south-east of Dudleston Heath village. The land here holds the damp memory of winter, draining slowly toward the nearby Newnes Brook where the water moves with a sluggish, silver persistence through the reeds. Ancient boundaries persist in the soil, echoed by the Moated Site and Associated Water Management Features located to the north-west, where earthworks rise like scarred knuckles from the flat pasture. Elson maintains a stillness that predates the busier clamour of the nearby market town, keeping its own counsel beneath a wide, shifting sky. Farmers here observe the turning of the seasons in the changing colour of the hedgerows, which flush with hawthorn blossom before hardening into the dark, tangled thickets of autumn. The air carries a scent of turned earth and cooling damp, a reminder that the terrain is shaped by the slow accumulation of river silt and human endeavour. Elson remains a place where the horizon feels closer, drawing the eye toward the distant, hazy outline of the hills that frame this corner of the West Midlands.
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Live animated radar for Elson and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Elson, Shropshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elson, Shropshire, 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. 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 Elson includes coordinates 52.916703, -2.916234, in the county of Shropshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Elson is available on the Elson map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Shropshire 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.