Downend, Isle of Wight Weather
About Downend, Isle of Wight
Downend retains a quiet composure, anchored by the ancient, chalky spine of the island that rises sharply towards the horizon. It lies 2.2 miles east-south-east of Newport (from Newport: bearing 113°T, OS grid SZ 533 878), and is situated north-north-west of Arreton village. The landscape here gathers itself into low, rolling heights where the light catches the pale, flint-strewn earth with a clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the day. To the east, the slopes of Robin Hill rise in a gentle swell, their grassy contours offering a broad view across the central valley of the Isle of Wight. Beneath the turf, the Downend Romano-British Villa leaves a silent trace of an older, agrarian life that once thrived in the shelter of these hills. The air carries the faint, shifting sounds of the countryside, moving freely between the trees and the open tracks that trace the path toward the higher ridges. This geography commands a stillness that persists even as the seasons turn the fields from heavy greens to the brittle, golden browns of late harvest. Downend remains a place where the history of the island is held not in grand architecture, but in the enduring, tactile relationship between the soil and the sky.
Flight conditions near Downend. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Downend and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Downend, Isle of Wight Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Downend, Isle of Wight, 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 Downend includes coordinates 50.687509, -1.246821, in the county of Isle of Wight, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Downend is available on the Downend map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Isle of Wight 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.