Folly, Dorset Weather
About Folly, Dorset
Folly occupies a quiet fold of the Dorset landscape, where the chalk hills hold the morning light in a firm, pale embrace. It lies 7.7 miles south-south-west of Sturminster Newton (from Sturminster Newton: bearing 208°T, OS grid ST 728 031), and is situated north-east of Plush village. The terrain here rises sharply toward the heights of Ball Hill, where the wind carries a salt-touched clarity from the distant coast. To the east, the earth remembers its ancient inhabitants, marked by the silent, grass-grown ramparts of the Camp on Nettlecombe Tout. Folly remains a place defined by these steep, verdant slopes, which catch the shifting shadows of clouds as they drift across the open pasture. The soil, thin and chalky, demands a patient hand from those who work the land, yet it yields a resilient beauty in the sparse, hardy flora that clings to the ridges. Below the summit, the land falls away into hollows that seem to hold the silence of centuries, untouched by the frantic pulse of the modern world. Folly endures as a fragment of older England, a place where the horizon is not obscured by man-made clutter but defined by the natural, rhythmic crests of the Dorset downs.
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About This Folly, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Folly, 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 Folly includes coordinates 50.827649, -2.387007, 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 Folly is available on the Folly 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.