Dunwich, Suffolk Weather
About Dunwich, Suffolk
Dunwich remains a spectral presence on the Suffolk coast, where the hungry North Sea has claimed much of its medieval grandeur. It lies 4.2 miles south-south-west of Southwold (from Southwold: bearing 212°T, OS grid TM 474 702), and is situated east-north-east of Westleton village. Salt-laden winds scour the crumbling cliffs, casting a pallor over the land where once-thriving markets thrived beneath the medieval sun. To the east, the skeletal remains of Dunwich Greyfriars stand as a lonely sentinel against the encroaching tide, their flint walls bleached by decades of relentless exposure. Beyond these ruins, the Minsmere-Walberswick Heaths And Marshes SSSi stretches out in a wild, reed-fringed expanse that pulses with the rhythmic calls of bitterns and marsh harriers. The light here possesses a brittle, silver quality, illuminating the way toward the quiet earth of Broom Hill where the horizon feels impossibly vast. Visitors often find the silence heavy with the memory of lost churches and submerged streets that now rest beneath the grey waves. Dunwich continues to endure as a place where the boundary between the firmament and the abyss remains dangerously thin.
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Live animated radar for Dunwich and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Dunwich, Suffolk Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dunwich, Suffolk, 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 Dunwich includes coordinates 52.274568, 1.625679, in the county of Suffolk, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Dunwich is available on the Dunwich map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Suffolk 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.