Calshot, Hampshire Weather
About Calshot, Hampshire
Calshot stretches along a narrow shingle spit, where the restless currents of the Solent meet the quiet, wooded fringes of the New Forest National Park. It lies 3.6 miles north-north-west of Cowes (from Cowes: bearing 340°T, OS grid SU 475 015), and is situated south-east of Fawley village. The horizon here is dominated by the salt-bleached silhouette of Calshot Castle, a sixteenth-century artillery fortification that has long watched over the shifting tides. Beyond the castle walls, the long, curved expanse of Calshot Beach draws the eye toward the Isle of Wight, its stones clicking rhythmically under the pull of the sea. Inland, the landscape softens into the verdant hush of the forest, where the Stanswood Stream meanders through the low-lying terrain toward the salt marshes. The light at Calshot possesses a peculiar, translucent quality, often catching the white hulls of boats and the distant industrial flares of Fawley with equal, unblinking clarity. Windswept and exposed, Calshot remains a place where the boundary between the wild, untamed water and the sheltered canopy of the woods is felt with every breath of salt air.
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Live animated radar for Calshot and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Calshot, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Calshot, 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 Calshot includes coordinates 50.811364, -1.325863, 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 Calshot is available on the Calshot 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.