Preston, Wiltshire Weather
About Preston, Wiltshire
Preston reveals itself through the quiet persistence of the Wiltshire landscape, where low-slung fields meet the horizon in a haze of muted greens and greys. It lies 3.4 miles south-west of Royal Wootton Bassett (from Royal Wootton Bassett: bearing 215°T, OS grid SU 035 780), and is situated east-south-east of Lyneham village. The land here holds a particular stillness, broken only by the rhythmic pulse of Cowage Brook as it winds its path through the damp earth just south of the tracks. Across these fields, the light often lingers, catching the edges of the Medieval Settlement Immediately North West Of Upper Littlecott Farm where the grass hides the faint, uneven contours of dwellings long since returned to the soil. Preston remains a place of subtle shifts, where the modern sky is occasionally traced by the flight paths of aircraft from the nearby airfield. The air carries a scent of turned clay and distant rain, grounding the senses in the stark reality of the plains. History here is not a loud proclamation but a series of whispers found in the stones and the slow, deliberate movement of the seasons. Preston endures as a fragment of the map where the quietude of the countryside defines the character of every passing hour.
Flight conditions near Preston. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Preston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Preston, Wiltshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Preston, Wiltshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Preston includes coordinates 51.501223, -1.950364, in the county of Wiltshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Preston is available on the Preston map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Wiltshire 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.