St Leonards, Dorset Weather
About St Leonards, Dorset
St Leonards draws its quiet character from the sandy, ancient earth of East Dorset. It lies 2.3 miles west-south-west of Ringwood (from Ringwood: bearing 241°T, OS grid SU 115 033), and is situated south of Ashley Heath village. The horizon here is defined by the St. Leonards And St. Ives Heaths SSSI, where the heather burns a deep, melancholic purple against the pale, bleached sky of late afternoon. Beneath the low-hanging clouds, the landscape retains a wild, porous quality that allows the damp air to linger between the scattered dwellings. A short distance away, the Moors River System SSSI carves a slow, silver vein through the lowlands, drawing life into the surrounding scrub and gorse. St Leonards occupies a transition between the heavy, dark timber of Barnsfield Wood and the open, heath-covered plains that breathe with every shift in the wind. The light in this corner of the county possesses a singular, thin clarity that catches the edges of the pine needles and illuminates the grit of the sandy paths. It is a place where the modern pulse of the road remains secondary to the patient, slow-moving tide of the natural environment.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This St Leonards, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Leonards, 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 Leonards includes coordinates 50.829788, -1.837371, 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 Leonards is available on the St Leonards 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.