Broadoak, Dorset Weather
About Broadoak, Dorset
Broadoak remains a quiet anchor within the verdant folds of the Dorset countryside, where the air tastes of damp earth and coming rain. It lies 2.8 miles north-west of Bridport (from Bridport: bearing 320°T, OS grid SY 436 964), and is situated west-south-west of Salway Ash village. The landscape around Broadoak rises in soft, heavy swells, with the silhouette of Denhay Hill casting a long, protective shadow over the western horizon as the sun declines. Below these slopes, the River Simene carves a deliberate path through the valley floor, its waters clear and cold as they move toward the coast. Hedgerows here are thick with hazel and blackthorn, marking the boundaries of fields that have been worked by hand for generations. Light shifts across the pastures with a pale, mercurial quality, turning the grass to shades of burnished copper and deep moss during the fleeting hours of the afternoon. Broadoak offers no grand monuments of stone, yet its character is defined by the persistent, unyielding geometry of the surrounding hills and the steady rhythm of the seasons.
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About This Broadoak, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Broadoak, 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 Broadoak includes coordinates 50.764721, -2.799957, 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 Broadoak is available on the Broadoak 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.