Wrafton, Devon Weather
About Wrafton, Devon
Wrafton emerges from the flat, salt-kissed expanse of North Devon as a quiet gathering of homes caught between the estuary’s reach and the rising inland slopes. It lies 4.3 miles west-north-west of Barnstaple (from Barnstaple: bearing 288°T, OS grid SS 493 356), and is situated west of Heanton Punchardon village. The air here holds the weight of the Atlantic, often carrying the rhythmic, rhythmic thrum of the nearby Rescue Helicopter Viewing Area, where the sky is frequently claimed by the sudden, purposeful arc of aircraft. To the north, the slopes of East Hill gather the low, slanted light of the afternoon, casting long shadows that sharpen the edges of the hedgerows. Wrafton maintains a modest, steady character, defined less by grand monuments than by the way the wind sweeps across the open fields toward the coast. Life here moves in concert with the shifting tides of the Taw and Torridge, a landscape where the horizon is always present and strangely vast. Each evening, the grey-blue mantle of the dusk settles over the rooftops, blurring the boundary between the salt marsh and the solid earth. This is a place of transit and observation, where the pulse of the coast meets the stubborn, quiet endurance of the Devon countryside.
Flight conditions near Wrafton. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Wrafton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Wrafton, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wrafton, 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 Wrafton includes coordinates 51.100285, -4.152733, 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 Wrafton is available on the Wrafton 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.