Horns Cross, East Sussex Weather
About Horns Cross, East Sussex
Horns Cross marks a quiet junction where the low-lying lanes of East Sussex converge under an expansive, pale sky. It lies 6.1 miles west-north-west of Rye (from Rye: bearing 284°T, OS grid TQ 825 225), and is situated south-south-east of Mill Corner village. The light here catches the dampness of the earth, turning the fields a bruised, heavy green that seems to hold the history of the soil in its stillness. To the north-east, the Sherbourne Valley dips into a shallow basin, drawing the morning mist away from the hedgerows in long, ghost-white ribbons. Horns Cross remains defined by these modest shifts in elevation, where the land rises slightly toward the rounded crest of Yewtree Hill. The roads are narrow and hemmed by thick, ancient banks that dictate a slower pace of travel, forcing a deliberate attention to the passing hedgerows. A sharp, clean scent of crushed grass often hangs in the air, drifting up from the low meadows that buffer the horizon. This landscape avoids the grand gestures of the coast, preferring instead the subtle, enduring grip of the Wealden clay.
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About This Horns Cross, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Horns Cross, East Sussex, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Horns Cross includes coordinates 50.972979, 0.598907, in the county of East Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Horns Cross is available on the Horns Cross map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the East Sussex 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.