Athelney, Somerset Weather
About Athelney, Somerset
Athelney rises as a singular, low-slung prominence above the damp, verdant expanse of the Somerset Levels. It lies 4.4 miles east-south-east of North Petherton (from North Petherton: bearing 123°T, OS grid ST 347 290), and is situated east of East Lyng village. The landscape here retains the memory of water, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the fields. Upon the gentle rise of Athelney Hill, the ground carries the ghost of an ancient monastic silence, marking the site where a royal abbey once commanded the marshy reaches. King Alfred’s Monument punctuates the skyline, a stone sentinel observing the quiet transformation of the silt and peat below. Athelney remains defined by this isolation, caught between the slow, dark currents of the River Tone and the reclaimed flatness of the surrounding moors. The light often catches the reeds with a silvered intensity, lending the air a clarity that feels sharpened by centuries of wind and winter flood. Walking these paths, one encounters a geography that refuses to be tamed, where the earth remains as fluid and restless as the history buried beneath the sod.
Flight conditions near Athelney. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Athelney and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Athelney, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Athelney, 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 Athelney includes coordinates 51.056929, -2.932787, 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 Athelney is available on the Athelney 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.