Kenny reveals itself as a quiet collection of dwellings, where the Somerset light catches the flint of ancient walls in the late afternoon. It lies 3.3 miles north-west of Ilminster (from Ilminster: bearing 305°T, OS grid ST 314 178), and is situated west-north-west of Ashill village. The landscape surrounding Kenny holds a heavy, damp stillness, punctuated by the rhythmic turn of agricultural life that has defined these fields for centuries. To the south-west, the Barrington Hill Meadows SSSI stretches out, its eighteen hectares of unimproved grassland shimmering with a fragile, wild vitality. The air here carries the scent of turned earth and the faint, metallic tang of the nearby hedgerows, grounding the hamlet in its deep, clay-rich soil. Beyond the immediate perimeter, the elevation of Speke's Hill rises to the east-north-east, offering a silent, watchful perspective over the lower pastures. Kenny maintains a reticent character, resisting the intrusion of modernity while keeping a steady, patient pace with the turning seasons. This quietude is not an absence of life, but a concentrated presence, felt in the way the wind moves through the grass and the singular clarity of the evening sky.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kenny, 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 Kenny includes coordinates 50.95598, -2.976794, 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 Kenny is available on the Kenny 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.