Wood, Somerset Weather
About Wood, Somerset
Wood reveals itself as a quiet collection of dwellings gathered upon the rolling Somerset landscape. It lies 3.3 miles west-north-west of Ilminster (from Ilminster: bearing 298°T, OS grid ST 312 173), and is situated north of Windmill Hill village. The earth here holds a damp, fertile weight, where the light of late afternoon catches the hedgerows in a pale, lemon-coloured glow. A short distance to the south-west, the Barrington Hill National Nature Reserve preserves a wilder character, its eighteen hectares of meadowland offering a sanctuary for the shyest of wildflowers. Wood sits amidst this verdant expanse, where the air often carries the scent of turned soil and the distant, cooling breath of the River Ding. Footpaths wind away from the quiet lanes, leading the traveller towards the slopes of Abbey Hill, where the horizon broadens into a wide, open expanse of sky. Each season brings a shifting palette to the pastures, from the sharp, verdant greens of spring to the muted, rusted copper of the autumn harvest. Wood remains a place of subtle transitions, defined as much by the slow passage of clouds as by the enduring patterns of the surrounding fields.
Flight conditions near Wood. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Wood and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Wood, Somerset Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wood, 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 Wood includes coordinates 50.951021, -2.980505, 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 Wood is available on the Wood 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.