Bix, Oxfordshire Weather
About Bix, Oxfordshire
Bix draws its character from the quiet, chalk-heavy folds of the Chiltern Hills, where the earth holds a pale and ancient stillness. It lies 2.6 miles north-west of Henley-on-Thames (from Henley-on-Thames: bearing 309°T, OS grid SU 728 851), and is situated west-south-west of Middle Assendon village. The landscape here belongs to the Lambridge Wood SSSI, where the dense canopy of beech trees filters the sunlight into thin, trembling shafts of silver. Beneath these boughs, the terrain drops away into the deep, secret hollows of Bromsden Bottom, a valley carved by the slow insistence of water over geological ages. Bix maintains a sparse, unassuming presence, defined more by the encroaching forest and the stubborn roots of the beech trees than by the clamour of modern ambition. The ruins of the Bix Old Church remain as a skeletal reminder of a shifting congregation, marking a spot where the heavy silence of the woods meets the weight of forgotten prayers. Even as the seasons turn, the air in Bix retains a sharp, flinty edge that speaks of the high, windswept ridge above the Thames valley. Here, the land does not offer itself up easily, but rewards the traveller with a profound, unadorned sense of solitude.
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About This Bix, Oxfordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bix, 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 Bix includes coordinates 51.560702, -0.951102, 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 Bix is available on the Bix 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.