Buckhurst Hill, Essex Weather
About Buckhurst Hill, Essex
Buckhurst Hill rises with a quiet, deliberate grace above the Roding Valley, its residential streets climbing the slopes that mark the edge of the London Basin. It lies 1.5 miles west-north-west of Chigwell (from Chigwell: bearing 290°T, OS grid TQ 415 939). Ancient hornbeam and oak define the horizon, as the entirety of Buckhurst Hill sits firmly within the protected expanse of the Epping Forest Sssi. The morning light often catches the high ground, casting long, slender shadows across the Victorian and Edwardian villas that line the winding roads. Residents often walk toward the open space of Roebuck Green, where the grass holds a damp, silver sheen under the pale Essex sky. Below the main ridge, the landscape softens toward the east, where the hidden course of the Overflow Brook follows the contours of the lower fields. This geography grants the residents a rare proximity to untamed woodland, creating a deliberate tension between suburban order and the wilder, encroaching thickets of the forest. The atmosphere here is shaped by this constant dialogue between the domestic hearth and the ancient, brooding canopy that borders the northern fringe.
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About This Buckhurst Hill, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Buckhurst Hill, Essex, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Buckhurst Hill includes coordinates 51.626934, 0.043261, in the county of Essex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Buckhurst Hill is available on the Buckhurst Hill map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Essex 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.