Bishopstone, Kent Weather
About Bishopstone, Kent
Bishopstone watches the grey expanse of the North Sea from the quiet elevation of the Kentish coast. It lies 1.8 miles east of Herne Bay (from Herne Bay: bearing 91°T, OS grid TR 206 682), and is situated north-east of Broomfield village. Salt-laden winds scour the chalky earth here, where the land meets the water with an abrupt and crumbling finality. A short stroll north-north-east leads one into the verdant depths of Bishopstone Glen, a sheltered hollow where the light filters through canopy leaves in pale, shifting ribbons. This landscape preserves the austerity of the shoreline, while the nearby Reculver Country Park stretches eastward to hold the ancient, ruined towers of an abbey against the horizon. Bishopstone remains a place of sparse, open horizons where the sky claims a greater portion of the view than the solid ground itself. The air tastes of brine and wet stone, carrying the heavy, rhythmic pulse of the tide that slowly reshapes the cliffs below. Each house in Bishopstone feels anchored against the persistent breeze, standing as a plain witness to the changing seasons of the channel.
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Live animated radar for Bishopstone and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Bishopstone, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bishopstone, 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 suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Bishopstone includes coordinates 51.370828, 1.168863, 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 Bishopstone is available on the Bishopstone 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.