Long Cross, Dorset Weather
About Long Cross, Dorset
Long Cross defines the western edge of the Dorset plateau, where the land begins to shed the heavy mantle of the chalk downs. It lies 0.8 miles west-north-west of Shaftesbury (from Shaftesbury: bearing 284°T, OS grid ST 851 233). The air here holds a clarity that sharpens the outline of Hawker’s Hill, rising only a short distance to the north-north-east to command the view. Shadows stretch long across the lanes as the afternoon sun catches the flint-flecked walls of the local architecture, lending a pale, silvered glow to the brickwork. A brief walk towards the south-east leads one toward the shadow of Castle Hill, where the earth still remembers the weight of ancient foundations hidden beneath the grass. Beyond the residential fringes, the landscape opens into the protected expanse of Breach Fields Sssi, where the quiet persistence of chalk grassland supports a delicate, unhurried biology. Long Cross remains a place of transition, caught between the gravity of the nearby market town and the wide, indifferent horizon of the rolling countryside.
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Live animated radar for Long Cross and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Long Cross, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Long Cross, 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 Long Cross includes coordinates 51.009069, -2.21294, 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 Long Cross is available on the Long Cross 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.