Buck's Cross, Devon Weather
About Buck's Cross, Devon
Buck's Cross holds a quiet, windswept authority over the high ground of the North Devon coastline. It lies 6.9 miles west-south-west of Bideford (from Bideford: bearing 251°T, OS grid SS 347 231), and is situated west-south-west of Buck's Mills village. The road here carries the salt-scoured air of the Bristol Channel, pushing inland to meet the dense, ancient canopy of Barton Wood. To the north, the landscape drops away into the Hobby to Peppercombe SSSI, where the earth seems to hold its breath beneath a heavy, maritime sky. Buck's Cross occupies a junction of shifting light, where the grey slate of the coast gives way to the deep, tangled greens of the inland forest. Beneath the road surface, the geology of the Torridge district asserts itself in sharp, unforgiving stone that has long resisted the reach of the plough. Here, the horizon is rarely static, defined instead by the sudden, bright movements of gulls navigating the thermals above the cliffs. It is a place of transit and exposure, where the wind carries the persistent, rhythmic hum of the Atlantic against the quietude of the trees.
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About This Buck's Cross, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buck's Cross, Devon, 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 Buck's Cross includes coordinates 50.983872, -4.354965, in the county of Devon, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Buck's Cross is available on the Buck's Cross map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Devon 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.