Barton on Sea, Hampshire Weather
About Barton on Sea, Hampshire
Barton on Sea commands a stark, shifting horizon where the land abruptly surrenders to the English Channel. It lies 1.2 miles south-south-west of New Milton (from New Milton: bearing 197°T, OS grid SZ 238 930). Erosion defines the rhythm of the place, as the cliffs of the Highcliffe To Milford Cliffs SSSI slowly yield their clay strata to the relentless appetite of the salt tides. Below these precipices, Barton on Sea offers a stretch of beach where the sand is grey and the water holds a cold, metallic clarity under the shifting clouds. Eastward, the grassy expanse of Barton Common provides a quiet buffer, a place where the wind carries the scent of salt spray and crushed gorse. The landscape feels exposed and transient, a high shelf of earth that seems to be watching the sea as much as the sea watches it. Visitors often find the light here possesses a particular quality, sharp and unsparing, which illuminates the fossils embedded in the eroding mud. It is a place of austere beauty, where the permanence of the shoreline is an illusion maintained only by the grace of the current season.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Barton on Sea, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Barton on Sea, Hampshire, 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 Barton on Sea includes coordinates 50.736613, -1.66328, in the county of Hampshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Barton on Sea is available on the Barton on Sea map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Hampshire 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.