High Ongar, Essex Weather
About High Ongar, Essex
High Ongar retains a quiet, persistent dignity amidst the flat, expansive agricultural plains of the Essex countryside. It lies 0.8 miles east of Chipping Ongar (from Chipping Ongar: bearing 80°T, OS grid TL 565 032). The local landscape is defined by a slow, deliberate stillness, where the grey light of afternoon often catches the flint-streaked masonry of the parish church. To the northeast, the soft, reed-lined banks of Clattersford Brook offer a narrow corridor of damp earth and shadow that contrasts with the tidy, open fields surrounding the houses. High Ongar exists in the long, cooling slipstream of its more prominent neighbour, where the earthworks of Ongar Castle remain as a moss-covered memory of medieval authority. The air here carries the faint, sharp scent of damp soil and ancient timber, particularly as the sun begins to retreat behind the distant, silhouetted tree lines. Those who walk the parish lanes find a geography shaped by the steady, unpretentious labour of generations who worked the heavy clay. Even today, the horizon remains wide and indifferent to the passing of time, holding the scattered dwellings in a frame of muted greens and browns.
Flight conditions near High Ongar. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for High Ongar and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This High Ongar, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for High Ongar, 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 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 High Ongar includes coordinates 51.706235, 0.264651, 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 High Ongar is available on the High Ongar 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.