Windmill Hill, Kent Weather
About Windmill Hill, Kent
Windmill Hill commands a quiet ridge where the air carries the sharp, salt-edged memory of the nearby Thames Estuary. It lies 2.4 miles east of Gillingham (from Gillingham: bearing 82°T, OS grid TQ 833 671), and is situated west-south-west of Upchurch village. The land here slopes away in long, pale fingers toward the damp, reed-fringed expanse of Horsham Marsh, where the horizon dissolves into a haze of grey and silver. To the south-east, the modest rise of Hurst Hill catches the low, slanted light of afternoon, casting deep shadows across the fields that have long felt the tread of agricultural labour. Winds from the coast sweep over the open ground of Windmill Hill, keeping the grasses lean and the sky perpetually wide. A visitor might catch the scent of damp earth and distant brine when the tide pulls back from the low-lying reaches. These fields remain tethered to the slow turn of the seasons, untouched by the frantic pace of the neighbouring industrial hubs. The landscape retains a singular, sparse dignity, defined more by the movement of weather than by the sprawl of human construction.
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About This Windmill Hill, Kent Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Windmill 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 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 Windmill Hill includes coordinates 51.373859, 0.63302, 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 Windmill Hill is available on the Windmill 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.