Blackdown, Dorset Weather
About Blackdown, Dorset
Blackdown emerges from the West Dorset landscape as a cluster of stone and slate held fast against the shifting winds of the plateau. It lies 5.1 miles south-south-west of Crewkerne (from Crewkerne: bearing 212°T, OS grid ST 397 029), and is situated east of Thorncombe village. The horizon here is dominated by the rising bulk of Blackdown Hill, a mere half-mile to the north, which casts long, cooling shadows across the pastures during the late afternoon. Water defines the edges of the terrain, as the gentle, persistent course of Temple Brook flows to the east, carving a quiet path through the soil. The light in this corner of the county possesses a singular, thin clarity, often catching the grey masonry of local cottages with a pale, silver intensity. Centuries of agricultural labour have smoothed the surrounding fields into a quiet, functional geometry that resists the encroaching wildness of the hedgerows. Blackdown maintains a stillness that seems to belong more to the earth than to the passage of modern hours. Visitors find the rhythm of the place dictated by the slow rotation of the seasons rather than the frantic demands of the road.
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Live animated radar for Blackdown and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Blackdown, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blackdown, 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 Blackdown includes coordinates 50.822596, -2.857251, 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 Blackdown is available on the Blackdown 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.