Alstone, Somerset Weather
About Alstone, Somerset
Alstone draws a quiet, low-slung silhouette against the expansive Somerset sky, defined more by the flat, reclaimed horizon than by any dramatic elevation. It lies 1.6 miles south-south-east of Burnham-on-Sea (from Burnham-on-Sea: bearing 161°T, OS grid ST 314 468), and is situated south-west of Highbridge village. The land here holds the damp, persistent memory of the sea, where the light often pulls thin and silver across the fields as if searching for the ancient, receding tides. Just a stone’s throw to the south-south-west, the Alstone Lake Settlement Site remains as a subtle depression in the earth, a ghost of human industry left to the quiet reclamation of the grasses. Further north, the River Brue snakes through the landscape, its dark, sluggish currents carrying the silt of the levels toward the distant Bristol Channel. The air in Alstone carries a distinct, sharp salt-breath that persists even on the stillest afternoons, cooling the brickwork of the older cottages. Pedestrians occasionally follow the quiet paths toward the Jubilee Gardens, where the manicured hedges offer a domestic contrast to the wilder, reeds-choked peripheries of the drainage rhynes. This geography dictates a slow, deliberate pace of life, where the shifting moods of the weather seem to possess more weight than the passage of the hours.
Flight conditions near Alstone. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Alstone and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Alstone, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Alstone, Somerset, 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 Alstone includes coordinates 51.216455, -2.982985, in the county of Somerset, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Alstone is available on the Alstone map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Somerset 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.