Downside, Somerset Weather
About Downside, Somerset
Downside reveals itself as a quiet assembly of stone and lane, caught in the slow, rolling respiration of the Mendip landscape. It lies 3.0 miles south-south-west of Midsomer Norton (from Midsomer Norton: bearing 210°T, OS grid ST 639 500), and is situated south-south-west of Chilcompton village. The land here rises to meet the sky with an ancient, stubborn grace, defined most sharply by the promontory fort on Blacker's Hill, where the earth still bears the phantom lines of an iron-age ambition. Below these heights, the valley floor of Moon's Bottom holds a persistent, cool dampness that feeds the vibrant, moss-heavy verdure of the surrounding fields. Downside retains a singular, unbothered character, where the light falls in long, amber slants across the low-lying hedges as the day retreats. The terrain remains scarred by the industrious reach of former coal workings, yet time has softened these industrial edges into wild, overgrown hollows. The quietude of Downside is rarely broken, save for the wind brushing against the limestone outcrops that break through the soil like the bleached bones of the earth itself.
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About This Downside, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Downside, 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 Downside includes coordinates 51.248395, -2.517257, 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 Downside is available on the Downside 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.