Whixall, Shropshire Weather
About Whixall, Shropshire
Whixall spreads its quiet reach across the flat, mossy plains of northern Shropshire where the horizon feels wide and unencumbered. It lies 3.4 miles north of Wem (from Wem: bearing 2°T, OS grid SJ 516 344), and is situated north-west of Quina Brook village. The land here holds the damp, dark memory of peat, a terrain defined by the ancient, expansive reach of Fenn's, Whixall & Bettisfield Mosses, where the air tastes of sphagnum and cold water. Paths meander past the quiet infrastructure of the Prees Branch Canal SSSI, a waterway that once carried the heavy burden of trade but now serves only the slow drift of dragonflies and the occasional heron. Whixall maintains a character shaped by this watery periphery, where the earth is soft and the sky seems to claim more than its fair share of the view. Light catches the edges of the mosses in the late afternoon, turning the bog pools into plates of burnished copper that shimmer against the darkening sedge. Life in Whixall moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, indifferent to the hurried pulse of the modern world. Small holdings and dispersed farms anchor the place, grounding the inhabitants in a cycle of growth and harvest that has persisted for generations.
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About This Whixall, Shropshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Whixall, Shropshire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Whixall includes coordinates 52.905374, -2.720923, in the county of Shropshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Whixall is available on the Whixall map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Shropshire 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.