Kilve, Somerset Weather
About Kilve, Somerset
Kilve commands the narrow strip of Somerset coastline where the Quantock Hills descend to meet the grey, rhythmic pulse of the Bristol Channel. It lies 4.9 miles east of Watchet (from Watchet: bearing 91°T, OS grid ST 149 430), and is situated east-south-east of East Quantoxhead village. The air here holds a distinct salt-sharp tang, pressing against the stone of the Chantry ruins where silence gathers in the hollowed-out windows of the fourteenth-century masonry. Beyond these skeletal walls, the land rises toward the Barrows on Longstone Hill, tracking the ancient lines of a landscape that has long witnessed the patient work of tide and wind. Kilve remains a place of low horizons, where the light shifts with a metallic sheen across the mudflats and the exposed limestone pavements. Beneath the shifting clouds, the fields maintain a quiet, agrarian order that has persisted long after the industrial embers of the past have cooled. The proximity of the sea dictates the mood of the streets, lending a bracing clarity to the atmosphere that sharpens the edges of every garden hedge and dry stone wall. Here, the earth feels thin and permeable, a fragile boundary between the solid comforts of the inland hills and the restless, encroaching grey of the sea.
Flight conditions near Kilve. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Kilve and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Kilve, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Kilve, 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 Kilve includes coordinates 51.180269, -3.218192, 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 Kilve is available on the Kilve 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.