Broad Ford, Kent Weather
About Broad Ford, Kent
Broad Ford emerges from the low-lying Weald as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the patient geometry of field and lane. It lies 4.3 miles south-east of Paddock Wood (from Paddock Wood: bearing 144°T, OS grid TQ 713 397), and is situated west-north-west of Brandfold village. The landscape here is dominated by the weight of heavy clay soils that hold the winter rains, reflecting a pale, bruised light across the horizon. A short distance away, the Medieval Moated Site At Share Farm remains as a hushed, earthwork memory of long-vanished homesteads. Broad Ford keeps its own counsel, unbothered by the frantic pace of the modern arterial roads that slice through the county. The nearby ruins of the moat suggest a time when the water was a boundary and a fortification rather than a mere decorative feature in the landscape. Sunlight catches the edges of the surrounding orchards, where the rows of trees stand in rigid, disciplined lines that track the contours of the earth. Broad Ford remains a place where the stillness feels intentional, as if the land itself is waiting for the seasons to turn without interference.
Flight conditions near Broad Ford. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Broad Ford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Broad Ford, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Broad Ford, 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 hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Broad Ford includes coordinates 51.130942, 0.44809, 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 Broad Ford is available on the Broad Ford 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.