Arne, Dorset Weather
About Arne, Dorset
Salt-crusted winds sweep across the mudflats and saltmarshes that define the low-lying edge of Arne. It lies 3.1 miles east of Wareham (from Wareham: bearing 81°T, OS grid SY 972 881), and is situated east-north-east of Ridge village. The landscape here breathes with the vast, tidal pulse of Poole Harbour Sssi, where the water retreats to reveal a glistening, grey expanse of silt. Arne sits within the Purbeck Heaths, a terrain where gorse and heather press close against the darkening horizon. Traces of a more bellicose past remain near the summit of Arne Hill, where the concrete remains of a heavy anti-aircraft battery stand as silent, weathered sentinels against the sky. A short distance away, the Bronze Age earthwork of a bowl barrow rises from the heath, grounding the present in a deep, archaic stillness. Sunlight often catches the metallic sheen of the Ladybird Spider sculpture, a curious modern totem resting amidst the wild, scrubby growth. Arne remains a place of quiet transition, where the land eventually dissolves into the brine of the harbour.
Flight conditions near Arne. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Arne and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Arne, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Arne, Dorset, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Arne includes coordinates 50.692766, -2.04024, in the county of Dorset, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Arne is available on the Arne map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Dorset 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.