Furzedown, Hampshire Weather
About Furzedown, Hampshire
Furzedown emerges as a modest collection of habitations where the Hampshire landscape softens into a series of quiet, chalk-streaked inclines. It lies 5.1 miles north of Romsey (from Romsey: bearing 11°T, OS grid SU 367 292), and is situated south-south-east of King's Somborne village. The light here has a particular thinness, casting long, sharp shadows across the lane that seem to pull the horizon closer to the doorstep. To the east, the ancient earthwork of the Bowl Barrow in Parnholt Wood keeps a silent watch over the fields, its grass-covered mound offering a stark reminder of the centuries that have settled into the soil. Furzedown draws its character not from grandeur, but from the way the morning mist clings to the perimeter of the nearby woodland, turning the trees into grey, indistinct ghosts. The local terrain prioritises the horizontal, with wide, open skies that force the eye to track the slow progress of weather moving in from the coast. A short distance away, the remnants of John of Gaunt’s Palace provide a skeletal frame for a history that has long since retreated into the brambles and ivy. This is a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a deliberate, heavy presence that defines the rhythm of daily life.
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About This Furzedown, Hampshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Furzedown, 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 Furzedown includes coordinates 51.061734, -1.477405, 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 Furzedown is available on the Furzedown 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.