Acol, Kent Weather
About Acol, Kent
Acol persists as a quiet outpost of chalk and flint, caught in the wide, exposed light of the Thanet plateau. It lies 3.6 miles south-west of Margate (from Margate: bearing 234°T, OS grid TR 307 671), and is situated north-north-west of Mount Pleasant village. The horizon here is vast and stripped of artifice, allowing the sun to bleach the fields until the earth appears pale and brittle. Centuries of agricultural toil have flattened the surrounding topography, yet the earth still holds secrets, such as the ancient ring ditches and enclosures that lie just a short walk from College Farm. The presence of the nearby Waterloo Tower serves as a vertical anchor, its silhouette rising above the trees to break the unrelenting horizontal sweep of the sky. Acol retains a singular stillness that feels removed from the frenetic energy of the nearby coast, favouring the slow rotation of the seasons over the noise of modern progress. Residents move through these lanes with the steady gait of people accustomed to the open weather, unbothered by the lack of grand architecture. Even the air in Acol seems to carry a bracing, saline quality, a reminder that the North Sea is never truly distant from the islanded character of this corner of Kent.
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Live animated radar for Acol and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Acol, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Acol, Kent, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Acol includes coordinates 51.35614, 1.312773, in the county of Kent, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Acol is available on the Acol map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Kent 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.