Tyneham, Dorset Weather
About Tyneham, Dorset
Tyneham remains a ghost of the Dorset coast, held fast in a stillness that outlives the families who departed in 1943. It lies 5.1 miles south-south-west of Wareham (from Wareham: bearing 210°T, OS grid SY 881 803), and is situated south-east of East Lulworth village. The landscape here is defined by the heavy, salt-laden air of the South Dorset Coast Sssi, which presses against the limestone walls of the abandoned cottages. Sun-bleached stone at Tyneham Post Office stands in mute testimony to a domestic life now reclaimed by the encroaching scrub and the persistent, rhythmic hum of the nearby firing ranges. Above the valley, the slopes of Whiteway Hill catch the low, slanted light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the empty tracks that lead toward the sea. Visitors wander through the roofless rooms where history is measured in the peeling paint of the schoolhouse rather than the ticking of a clock. The silence of Tyneham is not empty, but heavy with the weight of interrupted lives left to weather under a vast and indifferent sky.
Flight conditions near Tyneham. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Tyneham and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Tyneham, Dorset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tyneham, 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 Tyneham includes coordinates 50.622633, -2.168439, 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 Tyneham is available on the Tyneham 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.