Chilbolton Down, Hampshire Weather
About Chilbolton Down, Hampshire
Chilbolton Down occupies a high, chalk-strewn plateau where the sky seems to press closer to the earth than it does in the sheltered valleys below. It lies 6.1 miles south-south-east of Andover (from Andover: bearing 153°T, OS grid SU 409 367), and is situated north-west of Crawley village. The landscape here is defined by wide, open horizons that capture the pale, thin light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the flint-rich soil. To the east, the chalk grassland of the Brockley Warren Sssi preserves a fragile, ancient ecosystem that has endured through centuries of agricultural change. Just a short distance further, the earth holds the quiet secrets of the Settlement Site At Brockley Warren, where the contours of past lives remain subtly impressed upon the rise. These elevated fields offer a stark, bracing solitude, far removed from the busier thoroughfares of the Test Valley. Chilbolton Down maintains a stoic presence, its character shaped by the relentless wind and the honest, unadorned breadth of the Hampshire countryside.
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About This Chilbolton Down, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chilbolton Down, 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 Chilbolton Down includes coordinates 51.128157, -1.416008, 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 Chilbolton Down is available on the Chilbolton Down 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.