Shifford, Oxfordshire Weather
About Shifford, Oxfordshire
Shifford remains a quiet pocket of the Thames Valley, where the flat, silty earth holds the memory of ancient floods and persistent agricultural toil. It lies 4.9 miles south-south-east of Witney (from Witney: bearing 168°T, OS grid SP 373 021), and is situated south-west of Brighthampton village. Low-lying fields stretch toward the horizon, punctuated by the silent, grass-covered mounds of the Round Barrow Cemetery 290M East Of Old Shifford Farm, which watch over the modern ploughing with a heavy, earthen patience. The light here has a way of pooling in the hollows, turning the damp pastures into mirrors that reflect the pale, shifting clouds of the Oxfordshire sky. Nearby, the Shifford Lock Cut draws a sharp, engineered line through the landscape, steering the river’s ambition with a utilitarian grace. Shifford feels anchored to the seasonal pulse of the water, a place where the stillness is only broken by the distant, rhythmic call of lapwings. Such isolation grants Shifford a distinct, unadorned character, far removed from the frantic noise of the modern thoroughfare.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Shifford, Oxfordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shifford, 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 Shifford includes coordinates 51.716471, -1.460503, 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 Shifford is available on the Shifford 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.