Manston, Dorset Weather
About Manston, Dorset
Manston reveals itself through the quiet persistence of its limestone architecture and the low, heavy light that clings to the Dorset fields. It lies 1.9 miles east-north-east of Sturminster Newton (from Sturminster Newton: bearing 64°T, OS grid ST 814 155), and is situated east-south-east of Hinton St Mary village. Here, the land falls away toward Manston Brook, where the water catches the grey sky and mirrors the skeletal branches of overhanging trees. A short distance away, the Medieval Standing Cross 30M South Of The Church Of St Paul endures as a silent, stone sentinel, marking a history that has long since shed its original purpose. The air carries a scent of damp earth and churned pasture, a reminder of the agricultural rhythms that have defined the inhabitants for centuries. Manston remains a place of subtle shifts, where the shadows cast by Porter's Hill grow long and thin across the meadows as the afternoon wanes. Residents walk paths that have been worn smooth by generations, moving between the stone houses and the quiet, verdant edges of the valley floor. The landscape possesses a gravity that demands attention, anchoring the spirit to the soil beneath one's boots.
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About This Manston, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Manston, 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 Manston includes coordinates 50.938957, -2.265079, 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 Manston is available on the Manston 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.