Heybrook Bay, Devon Weather
About Heybrook Bay, Devon
Heybrook Bay commands a rugged stretch of the South Hams coastline where the Atlantic tides carve deep, salt-bitten furrows into the Devonian slate. It lies 3.5 miles south-south-east of Plymouth (from Plymouth: bearing 159°T, OS grid SX 496 490), and is situated south-west of Down Thomas village. Sea spray often clings to the windows of the hillside cottages, tempering the light until the horizon blurs into a bruised, metallic blue. To the north, the rounded shoulders of Bonfire Hill catch the morning sun, offering a vantage point over the complex geometry of the coastline below. The landscape bears the heavy silence of military heritage, marked by the weathered concrete of a World War II heavy anti-aircraft gunsite that remains as a grim, structural shadow against the green. Further along the cliffs, the maritime defences of Fort Bovisand stand as a sentinel of stone, watching over the deep-water channels that have long defined the reach of the nearby naval port. Heybrook Bay exists in this dialogue between the domestic hearth and the vast, indifferent movement of the English Channel. Here, the land does not merely end; it fractures, leaving a jagged edge where the earth finally yields to the restless push of the sea.
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Live animated radar for Heybrook Bay and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Heybrook Bay, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Heybrook Bay, 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 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 Heybrook Bay includes coordinates 50.3226, -4.113355, 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 Heybrook Bay is available on the Heybrook Bay 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.