Blackford, Somerset Weather
About Blackford, Somerset
Blackford holds its own against the wide, sloping horizon of the Somerset landscape, where the heavy clay earth seems to hold the light long after the sun has dipped. It lies 3.7 miles west-south-west of Wincanton (from Wincanton: bearing 246°T, OS grid ST 657 262), and is situated east of Compton Pauncefoot village. The sharp rise of Knoll Hill sits only a short distance to the north, casting a long, cool shadow over the pastures that define the local agricultural rhythm. This terrain is marked by the quiet endurance of the land, where the wind moves across the fields with a steady, unbothered persistence. To the west, the elevated ground of Warren Hill frames the view, providing a natural boundary that keeps the world at a comfortable distance. Blackford remains a place of stone walls and iron gates, where the quiet is not an absence of sound but a density of rural life. The local architecture speaks to a history of limestone masonry, solid and grey, reflecting the rain-washed skies of the South West. Here, the day-to-day work of the fields continues in a slow, rhythmic cycle, indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern world.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Blackford, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blackford, 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 Blackford includes coordinates 51.034411, -2.490112, 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 Blackford is available on the Blackford 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.