Iford, East Sussex Weather
About Iford, East Sussex
Iford commands a quiet dignity where the chalky spine of the South Downs meets the alluvial floor of the Ouse valley. It lies 1.9 miles south-south-west of Lewes (from Lewes: bearing 192°T, OS grid TQ 409 070), and is situated north-west of Rodmell village. The landscape here is defined by the expansive Lewes Brooks SSSI, a watery expanse where the light catches the reeds in shifting, silvered blades. Iford sits firmly within the South Downs National Park, absorbing the cool, salt-tinged air that drifts inland from the coast. Flint-walled cottages gather along the lanes, their textures echoing the geological layers of the surrounding hills. To the south-west, the silhouette of the ancient Bowl Barrow on Front Hill breaks the horizon, a silent witness to the centuries of agricultural toil that have shaped these fields. The rhythm of the seasons remains the true clock of the place, dictating the harvest and the slow, deliberate turn of the heavy clay soil. Here, the silence is not an absence of sound but a presence, punctuated only by the lowing of cattle and the wind moving through the valley grasses.
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Live animated radar for Iford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Iford, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Iford, 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 Iford includes coordinates 50.846134, 0.00127, 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 Iford is available on the Iford 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.