Dunbury, Dorset Weather
About Dunbury, Dorset
Dunbury commands a silent authority over the chalky contours of the Dorset landscape, where the wind shears across the high ridges with a sharp, insistent cold. It lies 4.4 miles west-south-west of Blandford Forum (from Blandford Forum: bearing 247°T, OS grid ST 819 036), and is situated south of Winterborne Houghton village. Ancient earthworks on Houghton South Down press against the horizon to the west, their rounded forms suggesting a long-forgotten occupation that still presses into the modern imagination. The light here has a thin, bleached quality, clarifying the flint-strewn soil and the sparse hedgerows that mark the ancient boundaries of the land. A solitary Bowl Barrow sits only a short distance to the north-east, a quiet earthen sentinel that observes the slow rotation of the seasons above Dunbury. The nearby Park Pale of the former Milton Abbey deer park reveals how the medieval nobility once carved their own exclusive quietude out of the wilder scrub. Dunbury remains a place of singular endurance, defined by the stark intersection of geological time and the persistent, unadorned labour of the fields.
Flight conditions near Dunbury. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Dunbury and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Dunbury, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dunbury, 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 Dunbury includes coordinates 50.831792, -2.257811, 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 Dunbury is available on the Dunbury 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.