Wheathill, Somerset Weather
About Wheathill, Somerset
Wheathill occupies a modest corner of the Somerset landscape where the earth seems to hold the light with a peculiar, lingering clarity. It lies 3.8 miles west-south-west of Castle Cary (from Castle Cary: bearing 254°T, OS grid ST 582 307), and is situated south-east of East Lydford village. Rising a mere 0.4 miles to the east-north-east, Wheat Hill commands a quiet watch over the surrounding fields, its slopes casting long, thin shadows as the day wanes. The land here retains a hollow stillness, particularly near the remains of the medieval settlement south-west of Perry’s Bridge, where the ground bears the faint, grass-covered indentations of dwellings long since abandoned to the wind. These historical scars beneath the turf suggest a time when human presence was perhaps more robust, though now only the birds disturb the silence of the pasture. Wheathill remains defined by this agricultural solitude, where the horizon is interrupted only by the occasional hedgerow or the distant, softening silhouettes of the countryside. The air carries a crisp, unadorned quality, free from the clamour of busier routes, allowing one to hear the rhythmic pulse of the season in the rustle of dry grasses. Through these quiet acres, the geography asserts its own slow, deliberate patience, indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern world beyond the parish boundary.
Flight conditions near Wheathill. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Wheathill and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Wheathill, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wheathill, 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 Wheathill includes coordinates 51.074681, -2.597563, 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 Wheathill is available on the Wheathill 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.