Southolt emerges from the flat, heavy claylands of Suffolk like a quiet thought held in the mind of the landscape. It lies 4.4 miles south-east of Eye (from Eye: bearing 139°T, OS grid TM 193 687), and is situated west of Newtown village. The Southolt Village Sign stands as a solitary sentinel, its painted surface capturing the pale, watery light that often drifts across these open fields. Lanes wander between hedgerows that seem to thicken with the seasons, shielding the quiet life of the parish from the modern world’s haste. To the north-west, the remnants of the Redlingfield Nunnery and Fish Ponds serve as a lingering shadow of medieval piety, where water still gathers in dark, reflective pools. Southolt maintains an air of dignified seclusion, defined by the slow rotation of crops and the vast, unobstructed sky that dominates the horizon. The earth here is stubborn and rich, demanding a steady hand from those who work its furrows. Such stillness allows the chime of a distant tractor or the call of a bird to carry across the acres with startling clarity.
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Live animated radar for Southolt and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Southolt, 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 Southolt includes coordinates 52.273088, 1.214186, 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 Southolt is available on the Southolt 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.