Pot Common, Surrey Weather
About Pot Common, Surrey
Pot Common emerges from the low-lying Surrey heathland as a quiet expanse where the horizon meets the silvered grit of ancient, sandy paths. It lies 4.3 miles west of Godalming (from Godalming: bearing 261°T, OS grid SU 900 426), and is situated south-south-west of Elstead village. The terrain here holds the pale, translucent quality of light found only where the soil is thin and the heather clings to the earth with a stubborn, wiry grace. This landscape is a fundamental component of the Thursley, Hankley & Frensham Commons SSSI, a vast, protected stretch that defines the character of the immediate surroundings. To the south, the damp, muffled silence of Thursley Bog exerts a gravitational pull on the senses, offering a stark contrast to the drier, scrub-covered elevations of the common itself. Pot Common retains a sense of open solitude, where the wind moves across the gorse with a sound like dry parchment being folded. The surrounding vegetation, shaped by centuries of grazing and the relentless, acidic temper of the ground, remains largely undisturbed by the frantic pace of the modern world. Here, the sky possesses an immense, unblinking clarity, reflecting the austere beauty of a land that has long resisted the reach of encroaching development.
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About This Pot Common, Surrey Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pot Common, Surrey, 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. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Pot Common includes coordinates 51.176008, -0.712581, in the county of Surrey, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Pot Common is available on the Pot Common map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Surrey 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.