West Compton, Somerset Weather
About West Compton, Somerset
West Compton emerges from the Somerset landscape as a cluster of stone dwellings defined by the quiet authority of the Mendip foothills. It lies 1.7 miles west-south-west of Shepton Mallet (from Shepton Mallet: bearing 241°T, OS grid ST 594 422), and is situated north of Pilton village. Low sunlight catches the limestone walls of West Compton, casting long, lean shadows across the narrow lanes that track the contours of the earth. To the north-north-west, the rise of Knowle Hill provides a natural bulwark against the weather, holding the hamlet in a shallow, sheltered basin. The nearby Friar's Oven SSSI marks a patch of protected ground where the thin, hungry soil supports a fragile persistence of wild flora. Agricultural rhythms dictate the pulse of the day here, where the damp, iron-rich scent of the fields lingers long after the mist has retreated. Stone-built barns and weathered boundaries bear witness to a lineage of labour that predates the busier thoroughfares of the nearby market towns. West Compton maintains a stillness that feels less like isolation and more like a deliberate, enduring patience.
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About This West Compton, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for West Compton, 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 West Compton includes coordinates 51.177827, -2.582115, 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 West Compton is available on the West Compton 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.