Alston, Devon Weather
About Alston, Devon
Alston emerges as a quiet cluster of dwellings amidst the rising folds of the East Devon landscape. It lies 2.6 miles north-north-east of Axminster (from Axminster: bearing 14°T, OS grid ST 307 026), and is situated north of All Saints village. The light here catches the high slopes of Honey Hill to the north-east, where the air thins and the horizon sharpens against the pale sky. Below these ridges, the terrain drops away into the shadowed depth of Brockfield Bottom, a valley carved by the slow, persistent memory of water. The earth around Alston feels dense and ancient, holding the dampness of the seasons in its dark, clay-rich loam. To the west, the ramparts of Membury Castle still exert a silent, weathered gravity over the surrounding fields. These remnants of a prehistoric fortification cast long shadows during the late afternoon, grounding the hamlet in a history that precedes the current patchwork of hedgerows and lanes. Every boundary stone and crumbling wall in Alston serves as a quiet witness to the enduring, unadorned character of this corner of the South West.
Flight conditions near Alston. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Alston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alston, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alston, Devon, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Alston includes coordinates 50.818827, -2.984945, in the county of Devon, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alston is available on the Alston map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Devon 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.