Chideock, Dorset Weather
About Chideock, Dorset
Stone cottages of golden limestone and thatch define the character of Chideock, offering a quiet defiance against the salt-laden winds blowing in from the English Channel. It lies 2.7 miles west of Bridport (from Bridport: bearing 267°T, OS grid SY 421 927), and is situated south-east of Morcombelake village. The landscape here falls within the West Dorset Coast Sssi, where the earth gives way to crumbling cliffs and hidden fossil beds beneath a vast, restless sky. Chideock holds the weight of its past in the earth, specifically near the moated site of Chideock Castle, where silence now replaces the medieval clamour of stone and steel. To the south, the River Winniford threads its narrow, clear path toward the pebble-strewn expanse of Seatown Beach, carving through the valley with a persistent, cold clarity. Sunlight catches the steep incline of the hills, illuminating a terrain that has been shaped by agriculture and the slow, rhythmic erosion of the coast. Chideock remains a place of sharp contrasts, where the hearth-fire warmth of the interior meets the raw, untamed exposure of the shoreline.
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About This Chideock, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chideock, 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 Chideock includes coordinates 50.731611, -2.820491, 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 Chideock is available on the Chideock 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.