Bucklesham, Suffolk Weather
About Bucklesham, Suffolk
Bucklesham emerges from the flat, arable expanse of the Suffolk plateau as a quiet gathering of brick and timber held in the amber glow of the late afternoon sun. It lies 2.8 miles south-south-east of Kesgrave (from Kesgrave: bearing 151°T, OS grid TM 243 419), and is situated north-north-east of Levington village. The Bucklesham Village Sign stands as a sentinel of painted iron, marking the threshold where metalled roads surrender to the hum of insects and the scent of turning earth. Beyond the immediate cluster of homes, the land stretches toward the ancient silence of the Bowl Barrows on Levington Heath, where earthen mounds rise like forgotten thoughts against the horizon. These grassy tumuli anchor the geography in a deep, pre-industrial stillness, reminding the observer that Bucklesham has long existed as a modest waypoint in a wider, shifting landscape. The local church, with its flint-knapped walls, catches the sharp clarity of the North Sea air that drifts inland to scrub the brickwork clean. Winters here bring a heavy, damp solitude, while the summer months find the fields bright with the metallic shimmer of ripening cereal crops. Bucklesham retains a singular, unadorned poise, indifferent to the frantic pace of the coastal ports that stir only a few miles away.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Bucklesham, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bucklesham, Suffolk, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Bucklesham includes coordinates 52.030212, 1.269153, in the county of Suffolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Bucklesham is available on the Bucklesham map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Suffolk 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.