Ide Hill, Kent Weather
About Ide Hill, Kent
Ide Hill commands a high, airy ridge in Kent, casting a long view over the shifting greens of the Weald. It lies 2.8 miles east-south-east of Westerham (from Westerham: bearing 120°T, OS grid TQ 486 518), and is situated west-south-west of Goathurst Common village. The air here feels thin and sharpened by altitude, carrying the scent of damp earth up from the expansive canopy of Scord’s Wood and Brockhoult Mount SSSI. Sunlight catches the flint of the local church tower, which serves as a solitary beacon for those traversing the high ground toward the crest of Newman’s Hill. Beyond the manicured slopes of Emmetts Garden, the horizon dissolves into a hazy, violet-tinted distance that defines the character of this elevation. Ide Hill maintains a quiet detachment from the busy lowlands, preferring the company of scudding clouds and the rhythmic rustle of broadleaf trees. The architecture remains modest, favouring local stone that seems to have grown directly from the ridge itself rather than being hauled into place. Every path leading away from the centre promises a sudden, startling perspective on the vast, untamed anatomy of the surrounding countryside.
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Live animated radar for Ide Hill and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Ide Hill, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ide Hill, 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 Ide Hill includes coordinates 51.246626, 0.129054, 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 Ide Hill is available on the Ide Hill 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.