East Water, Somerset Weather
About East Water, Somerset
East Water emerges from the high Mendip limestone as a quiet convergence of ancient earth and subterranean complexity. It lies 3.3 miles north-north-west of Wells (from Wells: bearing 347°T, OS grid ST 537 508), and is situated east of Priddy village. The landscape here is defined by the porous, hungry rock that drinks the rain, hiding the secrets of the Priddy Caves SSSi beneath the thin, windswept grass. East Water sits exposed to the shifting moods of the Atlantic weather, where the light often feels brittle and sharp against the grey stone walls. To the north, the rounded silhouettes of prehistoric burial mounds rise like dormant giants, marking a horizon that has looked much the same for millennia. A short distance away, the dark, still waters of the Mineries Pool hold the reflection of an industrial past, mirroring the ghosts of lead miners who once scoured these slopes for fortune. The air at East Water carries a persistent, clean chill, sharpened by the absence of trees and the constant, invisible pull of the earth towards the deep caverns below.
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Live animated radar for East Water and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This East Water, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for East Water, 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 other settlement. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for East Water includes coordinates 51.255221, -2.664815, 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 East Water is available on the East Water 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.