Cruxton, Dorset Weather
About Cruxton, Dorset
Cruxton remains a quiet pocket of Dorset, defined by the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons and the heavy dampness of the earth. It lies 6.6 miles west-north-west of Dorchester (from Dorchester: bearing 303°T, OS grid SY 602 966), and is situated south-south-east of Maiden Newton village. The landscape here rises with a stubborn, calcified grace, particularly where the slopes of Chammen's Hill break the horizon to the west with an austere, treeless clarity. Below these elevations, the light often lingers in the hollows, catching the dew on the grass long after the morning sun has claimed the higher ridges. To the north, the ancient ridges of the Field System W Of Fore Hill bear silent witness to centuries of forgotten labour, their outlines softened by encroaching gorse and stubborn scrub. Cruxton itself maintains a modest profile, eschewing the clamour of busier districts for the rhythmic silence of the surrounding fields. The air here carries a sharp, clean chill, smelling faintly of crushed chalk and the cold, mineral breath of the soil. Each lane is narrow and hemmed in by hedges that seem to hold the memory of countless winters within their gnarled, dark wood.
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About This Cruxton, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cruxton, 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 Cruxton includes coordinates 50.767922, -2.564901, 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 Cruxton is available on the Cruxton 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.