Swanton Street, Kent Weather
About Swanton Street, Kent
Swanton Street marks a quiet intersection of rural lanes where the Kentish landscape softens into a series of rolling, chalky inclines. It lies 3.3 miles south-west of Sittingbourne (from Sittingbourne: bearing 217°T, OS grid TQ 875 593), and is situated south-south-west of Bredgar village. The light here possesses a peculiar clarity, catching the flint-knapped walls of traditional cottages that seem to have grown directly from the earth. To the north-northeast, the surface of Gore Pond reflects the shifting clouds, offering a tranquil mirror to the surrounding orchards that define the local agricultural character. A short distance to the east, the steady ascent of Horn Hill breaks the horizon, providing a natural boundary to the expansive fields that surround Swanton Street. The air in this part of the Swale district often carries the faint, crisp scent of damp soil and ancient hedgerows, a reminder of the generations who have worked these heavy, fertile clays. Winter evenings settle early over the lanes, turning the sky a deep, bruised purple that contrasts sharply against the stark, skeletal branches of the dormant trees. Life here moves in accordance with the turning seasons rather than the frantic pulse of the nearby motorway networks.
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Live animated radar for Swanton Street and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Swanton Street, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Swanton Street, 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 Swanton Street includes coordinates 51.30233, 0.689642, 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 Swanton Street is available on the Swanton Street 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.