Playden, East Sussex Weather
About Playden, East Sussex
Playden rises with a quiet, flint-grey dignity above the marshy fringes of the Rother levels. It lies 1.1 miles north of Rye (from Rye: bearing 354°T, OS grid TQ 918 222), and is situated south of Iden village. The local topography reveals a landscape shaped by ancient drainage and the slow, rhythmic shifting of the river. To the north-west, the low depression of Hoad Mill Bottom holds a damp, silver light that clings to the grasses long after dawn. The church of St Michael commands the high ground, its shingled spire a dark needle pointing toward the restless Channel winds. Beneath the soil, the remnants of a medieval pottery works near Spains hint at a time when the hands of craftsmen shaped this earth into vessels for daily use. A short distance away, the Leasam Heronry Wood SSSI provides a sanctuary where the air is filled with the sudden, sharp wingbeats of birds rising into the canopy. Playden remains a place of deliberate silences, where the heavy, salt-laden air of the coast meets the cooling shadows of the inland woods.
Flight conditions near Playden. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Playden and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Playden, East Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Playden, 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 Playden includes coordinates 50.967541, 0.731129, 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 Playden is available on the Playden 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.