Pleck Green, Dorset Weather
About Pleck Green, Dorset
Pleck Green occupies a quiet corner of the Dorset landscape where the earth holds the memory of ancient, slow-moving shifts. It lies 4.6 miles south-south-west of Stalbridge (from Stalbridge: bearing 203°T, OS grid ST 706 110), and is situated north-north-east of Holwell village. The terrain here rises with a modest, persistent ambition toward Crouch Hill, which looms just a short distance to the south-west like a rounded sentinel watching over the low-lying pastures. Below these slopes, the light often catches the moisture trapped in the soil, lending a silvery sheen to the fields that persists long after the morning mist has retreated. This proximity to the rise of the land contrasts with the broader, flatter horizons found further east, where the expansive Blackmore Vale Commons and Moors Sssi stretch out in a vast, untamed mosaic of wetland. Pleck Green remains defined by these small, intimate elevations that break the monotony of the plain. Farmers have worked this heavy clay for generations, carving out a living from the damp, stubborn ground that refuses to be rushed. The atmosphere possesses a stillness that feels intentional, as if the land itself prefers to keep its own counsel beneath the wide, shifting skies of the South West.
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About This Pleck Green, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pleck Green, 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 Pleck Green includes coordinates 50.897933, -2.418773, 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 Pleck Green is available on the Pleck Green 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.