Our Romford forecast page details local weather conditions for today, tonight, and tomorrow from our team of forecasters at Essex Weather. Access to rainfall radar and lightning maps are shown towards the bottom of the page.
An extended long-range weather forecast covering the next 7, 10, and 30-day period is available on our month ahead forecast page.
Short Range Forecast
Medium Range Forecast
Daily Weather Outlook
Severe Weather Warnings
Flood Warnings and Alerts
Flood Warnings and Alerts
The link below shows all current flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings issued for Essex by the Environment Agency.
Weather and Health
Pollen Forecast
A five-day national and regional pollen forecast is available from the Met Office with expertise from the University of Worcester.
Pollution Forecast
A five-day national and local pollution forecast is available from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
Heat-Health Alert
The Heat-Health Alert service operates from 1st June to 15th September each year, in association with UK Health Security Agency.
Radar and Lightning Maps
Rainfall Radar
The link below shows animated rainfall radar images at 5-minute intervals of Romford and the rest of Essex over the past 90 minutes.
Different colours indicate how heavy precipitation is that is falling to the ground. For example, areas of yellow and orange show heavy rainfall (or snowfall in winter). Thunderstorms are often indicated by red or pink colours.
Lightning Maps
The link below enables weather observers to track thunderstorms in and around southeast England and the near Continent.
The lightning data is shown on a map in real-time, but depending on server load (especially during severe weather outbreaks), there may be a delay between 3 and 10 seconds before each new strike appears.
Weather In Romford
Our forecasters update the written short-range and medium-range weather forecasts throughout the day. They include the latest output from the Met Office UKV and ECMWF numerical weather prediction models. These kilometre-scale forecasting models produce significantly improved weather forecasts and pinpoint features such as thunderstorms, fog, and snow.
A graphical weather outlook for the next four days is presented for Romford and is based upon the latest run of the ECMWF computer model. Updated twice daily, this forecast provides a view of expected daily weather conditions for the Romford area, including predicted minimum and maximum temperatures.
Romford Weather History
During the wild weather and blizzards that gripped Essex in January 1881, a woman's body was found in Romford by a man testing the drifts with a hoe. She had set out in the terrible weather to visit her sick husband at the Romford Union Workhouse Infirmary and been entombed in snow. In June 1903, the weather caused it to rain in Romford for 60 hours without a break, inevitably leading to severe flooding, the longest continuous rainfall in the weather history of the town. On the morning of 22nd August 1987, the temperature was measured at 29C, but the humidity of the conditions meant that the weather took a turn for the worse in the afternoon, and the heavens opened. The rain was so severe that 100 homes were flooded in Romford and the weather also brought huge hailstones to various parts of Essex.
Important: Whilst we provide a comprehensive daily weather forecast service for Essex, we urge visitors to check the Met Office website today for any severe weather warnings and the Environment Agency website for any flood warnings that may affect Romford and the surrounding areas.
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