Shothole, Dorset Weather
About Shothole, Dorset
Shothole remains a quiet enclave where the chalky earth of Dorset meets the patient, slow-moving currents of the River Stour. It lies 1.7 miles west of Blandford Forum (from Blandford Forum: bearing 264°T, OS grid ST 857 061), and is situated west-south-west of Bryanston village. Sunlight here has a particular clarity, catching the flint walls of the older cottages and turning them into pale, bruised silver as the afternoon wanes. To the north-northeast, the dense canopy of The Hanging creates a dark, serrated horizon that shelters Shothole from the biting winds sweeping off the open downland. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the ancient earthworks of the Field System In Old Park serve as a silent reminder of centuries of agrarian toil, where the soil still holds the ghost-lines of long-forgotten furrows. The local atmosphere is defined by this proximity to wilder, wooded edges, where the air tastes faintly of damp leaves and crushed limestone. Every path leading away from Shothole seems to hold a memory of the drovers and farmers who once traversed these chalk tracks. Even now, the silence remains deep enough to hear the sudden, sharp alarm of a pheasant breaking cover within the nearby thickets.
Flight conditions near Shothole. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Shothole and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Shothole, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shothole, 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 Shothole includes coordinates 50.854515, -2.204108, 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 Shothole is available on the Shothole 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.