St Ives, Dorset Weather
About St Ives, Dorset
St Ives defines the character of the Dorset landscape through its quiet proximity to the open heathland. It lies 1.7 miles west-south-west of Ringwood (from Ringwood: bearing 242°T, OS grid SU 124 039), and is situated east-south-east of Ashley Heath village. The horizon here is dominated by the expansive, sandy terrain of Avon Heath Country Park, where the light shifts across the gorse with a pale, brittle clarity. St Ives maintains a modest presence, its boundaries defined by the encroaching shadows of nearby woodland rather than the stone walls of older, more central districts. To the south-east, the elevation of David's Hill rises to offer a vantage point over the low-lying scrub and residential clusters. The air holds a dry, resinous scent carried from the pine needles, grounding the houses in an environment that feels perpetually caught between cultivation and the wild. Life in St Ives moves with the slow, deliberate pace of a place that prefers the company of the wind and the long, thin shadows of winter afternoons.
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Live animated radar for St Ives and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This St Ives, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Ives, 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 St Ives includes coordinates 50.834923, -1.824587, 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 St Ives is available on the St Ives 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.