Ashington, Somerset Weather
About Ashington, Somerset
Ashington holds the quiet dignity of a place where the horizon remains unburdened by the clamour of the modern age. It lies 3.4 miles north of Yeovil (from Yeovil: bearing 5°T, OS grid ST 561 213), and is situated east-south-east of Limington village. The land here carries the low, damp weight of the Somerset levels, where the sky seems to press down with a silver, heavy intensity upon the fields. To the north, the waters of Hornsey Brook trace a cold, winding path through the heavy clay, feeding the moisture that keeps the pastures perpetually emerald. Ashington itself retains the sharp, clean lines of its ancient foundations, with the local church standing as a solitary witness to the centuries that have drifted by like clouds. A short distance to the east, the moated site at Hinton Farm marks the earth with the ghosts of medieval labour, reminding the observer that this soil has been worked by human hands for generations. The atmosphere in Ashington possesses a singular stillness, broken only by the sudden, sharp call of a bird or the shifting of wind against the hedgerows. It is a landscape defined by the subtle persistence of its geography, where the passage of time is measured not in hours, but in the slow, rhythmic turning of the seasons across the plains.
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Live animated radar for Ashington and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Ashington, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Ashington, 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 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 Ashington includes coordinates 50.990183, -2.626226, 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 Ashington is available on the Ashington 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.