Bean, Kent Weather
About Bean, Kent
Bean serves as a quiet sentinel of the Kentish landscape, maintaining a modest poise amidst the encroaching sprawl of the modern commute. It lies 1.8 miles south of Swanscombe (from Swanscombe: bearing 181°T, OS grid TQ 588 722), and is situated north-north-east of Green Street Green village. The sunlight here often catches the flint-strewn lanes with a sharp, pale clarity, casting long shadows that seem to anchor Bean to the chalky earth. To the west, the ancient timber of Darenth Wood offers a dark, rustling counterpoint to the open fields that define the horizon. Residents often wander toward the nearby Beacon Wood Country Park, where the canopy provides a sanctuary of shifting greens and cooling silence. The proximity of such woodland suggests a time when the surrounding terrain was far wilder, yet Bean retains its own distinct, orderly character. History lingers in the soil, occasionally surfacing in the quiet corners of the parish where the rush of the nearby arterial roads fades into a distant, rhythmic hum. Those who walk the local footpaths feel the weight of a geography that has been shaped by centuries of agricultural patience.
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Live animated radar for Bean and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Bean, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bean, 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 Bean includes coordinates 51.426833, 0.283606, 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 Bean is available on the Bean 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.