Steeple, Dorset Weather
About Steeple, Dorset
Limestone walls and weathered stone cottages define the quiet character of Steeple, a place where the air carries the salt-scent of the nearby coast. It lies 4.0 miles south of Wareham (from Wareham: bearing 191°T, OS grid SY 911 811), and is situated north-north-west of Kimmeridge village. The land rises with a deliberate, heavy grace towards the Purbeck Ridge (West) Sssi, where the wind scours the chalk and keeps the grasses low. To the east, the curated grounds of Steeple Manor offer a brief, sheltered respite of formal greenery against the wilder, exposed edges of the ridge. The horizon here is dominated by the stubborn permanence of the earth, as if the landscape itself were a manuscript written in shifting shades of grey and ochre. Further north, the stark silhouette of Grange Arch stands as a solitary sentinel, marking the passage of centuries against the changing light. Steeple persists in this ancient fold of Dorset, unbothered by the frantic pulse of the modern world.
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Live animated radar for Steeple and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Steeple, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Steeple, 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 Steeple includes coordinates 50.629871, -2.127166, 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 Steeple is available on the Steeple 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.