Adwell remains a quiet pocket of Oxfordshire, where the horizon holds the weight of ancient, slow-turning earth. It lies 3.1 miles north of Watlington (from Watlington: bearing 9°T, OS grid SU 696 995), and is situated west-south-west of Postcombe village. To the southeast, the slopes of Adwell Cop rise like a dormant shoulder against the sky, gathering the low, pale light of the waning afternoon. The terrain here remembers the turn of the plough, with fields that stretch toward the shadows cast by the distant, stone-wrought mass of Shirburn Castle. Water moves with a secretive, metallic glint through the landscape, draining the heavy clay soils that define the character of Adwell. Every hedgerow seems to hold its breath, preserving a silence that is only broken by the sudden, sharp friction of wind against dry grass. Here, the geography is not merely a map, but a series of textures—the rough grit of the chalk and the damp, cool scent of the earth after rain. Adwell keeps its own time, measured by the lengthening of shadows and the steady, indifferent rotation of the seasons.
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Live animated radar for Adwell and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Adwell, Oxfordshire, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Adwell includes coordinates 51.690404, -0.99404, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Adwell is available on the Adwell map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Oxfordshire 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.