Cotton, Suffolk Weather
About Cotton, Suffolk
Cotton endures as a quiet Suffolk landscape where the horizon stretches flat and wide under an expansive, pale sky. It lies 5.5 miles north of Stowmarket (from Stowmarket: bearing 11°T, OS grid TM 062 675), and is situated east-north-east of Bacton village. The light here catches the mechanical curiosities housed within the Cotton Mechanical Music Museum & Bygones, where the ghosts of Victorian melodies seem to linger in the gears. Beyond these walls, the land rolls toward the historic earthworks of the Westhorpe Hall Moated Site, a place where shallow water holds the reflection of passing clouds. The Cotton Village Sign stands as a modest sentinel, marking the way for those who traverse these narrow, winding lanes. Agricultural fields define the edges of the horizon, their furrows tracking the sun as it moves across the heavy, clay-rich earth. Each season brings a different temperament to the soil, shifting from the iron-hard frosts of winter to the soft, verdant push of spring growth. Cotton remains a place where the stillness is measured not in hours, but in the slow, rhythmic turning of the seasons across the open fields.
Flight conditions near Cotton. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Cotton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Cotton, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cotton, Suffolk, 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 Cotton includes coordinates 52.267292, 1.021368, in the county of Suffolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Cotton is available on the Cotton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Suffolk 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.