Melplash, Dorset Weather
About Melplash, Dorset
Melplash reveals itself through the quiet persistence of limestone and the way the light catches the flint-streaked walls of its cottages. It lies 2.1 miles south-south-east of Beaminster (from Beaminster: bearing 167°T, OS grid SY 487 979), and is situated east of Waytown village. Green shoulders of earth rise sharply on either side of the valley, where the steep incline of Gore’s Hill overlooks the tracks leading toward the coast. The landscape here demands a steady gait, as the terrain is defined by the sharp, sudden contours of the West Dorset hills rather than the flatness of the plains. A persistent, damp breeze often travels up from the direction of the Mangerton River, carrying the scent of wet stone and crushed wild garlic. Visitors might trace the ancient earthworks of the Round Barrow on Knight’s Hill, where the skyline breaks into a jagged silhouette against the low-hanging clouds. Melplash maintains a character tethered to the soil, reflecting an agricultural lineage that continues to shape the local rhythm of the seasons. Each winter, the frost clings to the hedgerows with a crystalline precision that renders the entire valley silent and brittle.
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About This Melplash, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Melplash, 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 Melplash includes coordinates 50.778807, -2.728016, 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 Melplash is available on the Melplash 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.