Shingle Street, Suffolk Weather
About Shingle Street, Suffolk
Salt-crusted shingle banks define the restless, shifting edge where Shingle Street meets the North Sea. It lies 6.3 miles north-east of Felixstowe (from Felixstowe: bearing 41°T, OS grid TM 366 426), and is situated south-east of Hollesley village. A solitary Martello Tower stands at Shingle Street like a weathered sentinel, its brickwork bleached by the relentless salt-laden gales. Beyond the immediate coastline, the low, damp expanse of Oxley Marshes stretches toward the horizon, where the sky often bleeds into the grey water in a seamless wash of silver. The landscape here possesses a stark, ascetic beauty, stripped of artifice and exposed to the raw temper of the tides. Further inland, the quiet waters of Barthorp’s Creek snake through the reeds, carving veins of dark reflection into the flat, marshy earth. Shingle Street remains a place of profound solitude, where the only music is the rhythmic grinding of pebbles under the retreat of the foam. Winter light here turns the sea into hammered pewter, casting long, sharp shadows across the barren, wind-swept banks.
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About This Shingle Street, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shingle Street, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Shingle Street includes coordinates 52.031923, 1.44844, 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 Shingle Street is available on the Shingle Street 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.