Shalcombe, Isle of Wight Weather
About Shalcombe, Isle of Wight
Shalcombe commands a quiet dignity upon the chalky spine of the Isle of Wight, where the wind carries the salt-tang of the English Channel across open, rolling slopes. It lies 3.6 miles south-east of Yarmouth (from Yarmouth: bearing 136°T, OS grid SZ 396 856), and is situated north of Brook village. The landscape here is defined by the Compton Down SSSI, a rugged expanse where the turf clings tenaciously to the limestone beneath a vast, indifferent sky. Ancient earthworks mark the horizon, including the Bowl Barrow in woodland on Shalcombe Down, where the silent mounds offer a heavy, lingering presence from a forgotten age. A short distance away, the craft of local artisans at Chessell Pottery Barns provides a rhythmic contrast to the prehistoric stillness of the surrounding ridges. Shalcombe endures as a place of stark horizons, where the light shifts rapidly across the grasses to reveal the subtle contours of the downland. The air possesses a clean, sharp clarity that seems to sharpen the senses of any traveller passing through its sparse, windswept lanes. Every turn in the road reminds the observer that Shalcombe exists in a delicate balance between the persistent weight of the past and the restless, shifting weather of the coast.
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Live animated radar for Shalcombe and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Shalcombe, Isle of Wight Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shalcombe, 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 Shalcombe includes coordinates 50.669168, -1.440992, 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 Shalcombe is available on the Shalcombe 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.