Iford, Dorset Weather
About Iford, Dorset
Iford marks a steady point of transition where the gentle sprawl of urban Dorset meets the persistent, winding course of the River Stour. It lies 1.1 miles west of Christchurch (from Christchurch: bearing 266°T, OS grid SZ 136 930). The landscape here holds a quiet gravity, defined by the low-lying meadows that catch the pale, slanted light of late afternoon. Residents find a brief reprieve from the road’s hum in the verdant silence of Swanmore Gardens, where the air feels scrubbed clean by the river’s proximity. To the east, the earth rises slightly toward the subtle humps of the landscape, where the ancient Bowl Barrow 390M East Of Tuckton Roundabout rests as a silent, grassy sentinel of older, unrecorded eras. Iford maintains a pragmatic, honest character, grounded by the steady flow of water and the long, thin shadows cast by the surrounding trees. The nearby presence of The Rookery offers a thicket of shelter for shifting birds, whose calls punctuate the stillness of the suburban afternoon. This is a place of modest scale, where the horizon remains wide enough to watch the clouds gather over the estuary, blurring the sharp edges of the day into a soft, grey watercolour.
Flight conditions near Iford. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Iford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Iford, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Iford, 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 Iford includes coordinates 50.737344, -1.807323, 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 Iford is available on the Iford 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.