Horton, Dorset Weather
About Horton, Dorset
Horton commands the quiet, chalk-dusted horizons of East Dorset where the shadows stretch long across the flint-strewn fields. It lies 3.6 miles west-south-west of Verwood (from Verwood: bearing 254°T, OS grid SU 029 075), and is situated north-north-east of Chalbury Common village. The land here holds a pale, meditative light that seems to linger on the hawthorn hedges and the ancient, brooding quietude of the local topography. To the west-south-west, the slopes of Chalbury Hill rise like a soft, green shoulder against the sky, marking a boundary where the earth turns steep and secret. Further north, the skeletal remains of Knowlton Church stand in a hollowed silence, a ruined memory of stone that watched the centuries pass without a sound. Horton retains a stillness that feels heavy with the weight of old agricultural ghosts and the slow, rhythmic turning of the seasons. Haythorne Common stretches out to the east, offering a wilder, scrub-brushed expanse where the wind moves with an uninterrupted, restless intent. Each lane in Horton curls around the natural contours of the soil, following the ancient pathways that once connected the barrow mounds to the wider world beyond the parish.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Horton, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Horton, 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 Horton includes coordinates 50.867384, -1.959364, 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 Horton is available on the Horton 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.