South Stifford, Essex Weather
About South Stifford, Essex
South Stifford retains a quiet, persistent gravity, anchored by the slow passage of light over the industrial scars of the Thames estuary. It lies 1.2 miles west of Grays (from Grays: bearing 276°T, OS grid TQ 596 782), and is situated south-west of Chafford Hundred village. The landscape here is defined by a deep, chalky memory, where the earth has been hollowed out to feed the hunger of construction and lime. To the south-east, the Lion Pit Sssi preserves a fragile, rugged terrain where rare orchids once claimed the spoil heaps as their own. South Stifford watches as the nearby Chafford Gorges Nature Park softens these jagged, anthropogenic wounds into a sanctuary of reeds and hidden water. The air often carries the faint, metallic tang of the river, a reminder of the proximity to the working tides that have long shaped the local horizon. Even as modern transit routes pull at the edges of the perimeter, a stubborn, rural silence persists in the pockets of scrubland that remain undisturbed. Here, the transition from heavy excavation to wild, unkempt beauty suggests a place constantly waiting for the next transformation of its soil.
Flight conditions near South Stifford. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for South Stifford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This South Stifford, Essex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for South Stifford, 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 South Stifford includes coordinates 51.481064, 0.29824, 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 South Stifford is available on the South Stifford 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.