Birch Cross, Staffordshire Weather
About Birch Cross, Staffordshire
Birch Cross emerges from the low-lying Staffordshire landscape as a quiet junction of rural lanes and ancient field boundaries. It lies 2.6 miles south-east of Uttoxeter (from Uttoxeter: bearing 134°T, OS grid SK 121 305), and is situated west-south-west of Marchington village. The earth here holds the damp memory of winter, marked by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons across the open pasture. A mile to the east, the rising prominence of Hound Hill catches the low, thin sunlight of late afternoon, casting long shadows that stretch toward the hedgerows. The water of the nearby Marchington Brook follows a steady, unadorned course, carving a path through the silt that has long defined the local drainage and agricultural character. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain holds a stillness that suggests a history of steady, unrecorded labour. Birch Cross remains tethered to this cycle, where the texture of the soil and the shifting sky define the boundaries of the day.
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About This Birch Cross, Staffordshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Birch Cross, Staffordshire, 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 Birch Cross includes coordinates 52.872172, -1.820506, in the county of Staffordshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Birch Cross is available on the Birch Cross map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Staffordshire 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.