Stoke St Michael, Somerset Weather
About Stoke St Michael, Somerset
Limestone veins trace the bedrock beneath Stoke St Michael, anchoring the architecture to the ancient, fractured geology of the Mendip Hills. It lies 3.5 miles north-east of Shepton Mallet (from Shepton Mallet: bearing 53°T, OS grid ST 664 468), and is situated west of Leigh upon Mendip village. The landscape here breathes through the St. Dunstan's Well Catchment SSSI, where water emerges from the dark, labyrinthine throat of the earth to feed the stream. Centuries of quarrying have left their signatures upon the land, exposing raw, pale cliff faces that catch the low, slanted light of an autumn afternoon. Stoke St Michael retains the quiet industry of a place that once relied on its stone and soil, with cottages built from the very rock pulled from the nearby slopes. The air carries a sharp, mineral clarity, particularly near the rugged terrain of Cook's Wood Quarry SSSI, where the horizon feels vast and unburdened. Paths wind away from the centre, leading toward hidden hollows where the silence is broken only by the sudden, percussive flight of a startled bird. These fields hold a heavy, enduring stillness that predates the maps drawn by men.
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About This Stoke St Michael, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Stoke St Michael, 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 Stoke St Michael includes coordinates 51.22005, -2.48213, 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 Stoke St Michael is available on the Stoke St Michael 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.