Great Ashfield, Suffolk Weather
About Great Ashfield, Suffolk
Great Ashfield endures as a quiet expanse of Suffolk clay where the horizon stretches wide beneath an indifferent, pale sky. It lies 6.2 miles north-north-west of Stowmarket (from Stowmarket: bearing 331°T, OS grid TL 997 672), and is situated west-south-west of Long Thurlow village. The local topography retains the heavy, moisture-rich character of the East Anglian plains, where the Great Ashfield Village Sign stands as a silent sentinel at the heart of the parish. A short walk to the west reveals the earthwork remains of the Castle Hill Motte, a subtle rise in the pasture that has long outlived the ambitions of its builders. The landscape softens toward the north where The Gardens, Great Ashfield Sssi preserves a fragile, four-hectare enclave of biodiversity undisturbed by the turning of modern seasons. Fields here are defined by the slow accretion of centuries, revealing a texture of soil that clings to the boots of any traveller crossing the fallow ground. Great Ashfield maintains a rhythm dictated by the sun’s passage across the open meadows, far removed from the clamour of busier horizons. Light here possesses a thin, sharp clarity, illuminating the flint and brickwork of local structures with a cold, honest precision.
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Live animated radar for Great Ashfield and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Ashfield, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Ashfield, 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 Great Ashfield includes coordinates 52.26698, 0.925627, 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 Great Ashfield is available on the Great Ashfield 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.