Cottle's Oak, Somerset Weather
About Cottle's Oak, Somerset
Cottle's Oak marks a quiet transition where the suburban edge of the Somerset landscape begins to fray into the deeper, limestone-hewn country. It lies 0.7 miles west of Frome (from Frome: bearing 277°T, OS grid ST 765 481). Heavy, moisture-laden air often rolls off the Mendip hills, settling over the gardens of Cottle's Oak with a stillness that suggests the heavy hand of ancient geology. To the northwest, the twenty-four hectares of Vallis Vale Sssi offer a rugged contrast, where the river carves through rock faces that have stood indifferent to the modest housing developments nearby. The sunlight here often catches the pale, porous stone of local walls, turning them a bruised gold as the afternoon wanes. South-southwest, the rise of Gibbet Hill provides a sharp, dark silhouette against the horizon, reminding the observer of a harsher, older rhythm to the land. Residents move between the quietude of these residential streets and the gravitational pull of the nearby market town, where the commerce of the present day hums against the backdrop of medieval alleyways. Even in the stillness of a suburban evening, the proximity to such wilder terrain ensures that the wind carries the damp, earthy scent of the valley floor.
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About This Cottle's Oak, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cottle's Oak, 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 suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Cottle's Oak includes coordinates 51.232238, -2.337042, 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 Cottle's Oak is available on the Cottle's Oak 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.