Lympne, Kent Weather
About Lympne, Kent
Lympne commands a rugged prominence high above the flat, marshy expanse of the Romney Marsh, where the horizon dissolves into a pale, salt-stung haze. It lies 2.4 miles west of Hythe (from Hythe: bearing 281°T, OS grid TR 122 353), and is situated south-south-west of Newingreen village. The ground beneath Lympne drops away in a sharp, limestone escarpment, a geological fault that anchors the skyline against the prevailing winds from the English Channel. Ancient stone walls of the Saxon Shore Fort, known as Stutfall Castle, crumble slowly into the clay slopes below, marking a boundary where the sea once washed against the Roman quay. Nearby, the medieval towers of Lympne Castle rise with a brooding, grey authority, their battlements silhouetted sharply against the shifting light of the afternoon. The air here carries a distinct, sharp clarity, often cooling rapidly as the shadows lengthen over the exposed ridge. Beyond the village, the quiet tracks of Millennium Wood offer a sheltered counterpoint to the open, wind-swept heights of the cliff edge. Lympne remains a place defined by this precarious tension between the solid, enduring earth and the vast, mercurial sky.
Flight conditions near Lympne. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Lympne and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Lympne, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lympne, 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 Lympne includes coordinates 51.077829, 1.028174, 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 Lympne is available on the Lympne 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.