Windmill Hill, Somerset Weather
About Windmill Hill, Somerset
Windmill Hill watches over the Somerset landscape with a quiet, observant patience that defies the frantic pace of modern travel. It lies 3.1 miles west-north-west of Ilminster (from Ilminster: bearing 292°T, OS grid ST 312 166), and is situated south-west of Ashill village. The land here rises in gentle, insistent swells, catching a particular quality of light that turns the damp fields into sheets of polished pewter during the winter months. Just a short walk away, the Barrington Hill National Nature Reserve offers a sanctuary where the air feels thinner and sharper, unburdened by the heavy industry of the lowlands. Windmill Hill remains tethered to this rhythm, where the horizon is defined more by the shifting clouds than by the encroaching reach of urban expansion. Hedgerows thick with hawthorn and hazel delineate the ancient boundaries of fields that have been ploughed for centuries, holding the memory of iron blades and heavy horses. Beyond the immediate pastures, the terrain tilts toward the horizon where the distant heights of Abbey Hill break the skyline, providing a firm anchor for the wandering eye. Life in Windmill Hill follows the slow turning of the seasons, marked by the gradual deepening of shadows and the persistent, quiet growth of the hedgerows under an expansive, uncrowded sky.
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Live animated radar for Windmill Hill and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Windmill Hill, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Windmill Hill, 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 Windmill Hill includes coordinates 50.945137, -2.979755, 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 Windmill Hill is available on the Windmill Hill 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.