Vale Down, Devon Weather
About Vale Down, Devon
Vale Down emerges from the high, shivering grasses of the West Devon landscape like a stone breath held against the vastness of the moor. It lies 6.9 miles south-south-west of Okehampton (from Okehampton: bearing 213°T, OS grid SX 523 859), and is situated north-east of Lydford village. Within the rugged expanse of Dartmoor National Park, the hamlet occupies a threshold where the wind carries the sharp, clean scent of granite and damp gorse. To the east, the silhouette of Brat Tor rises against the horizon, its crown often bruised by the bruised purple of an approaching storm. Ancient earthworks, such as the ring cairn near the summit of Great Nodden, suggest that Vale Down has long watched the slow, geological turning of the seasons. The light here possesses a particular, silver clarity, illuminating the moss-slicked walls and the sudden, startling flight of a kestrel over the open heather. Life in Vale Down remains tethered to the moods of the high ground, where the silence is only broken by the distant, rhythmic water-music of the Walla Brook. Every evening, the shadows lengthen across the tussocks, tracing the lines of a landscape that belongs more to the sky than to the maps of men.
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Live animated radar for Vale Down and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Vale Down, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Vale Down, 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 Vale Down includes coordinates 50.65481, -4.089907, 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 Vale Down is available on the Vale Down 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.