Balls Green emerges as a quiet knot of dwellings where the low-slung horizon of West Sussex gathers the morning mist against the hedgerows. It lies 6.3 miles south-west of Horsham (from Horsham: bearing 227°T, OS grid TQ 100 234), and is situated west-north-west of Coolham village. The land here holds the damp weight of the Weald, a heavy, clay-bound earth that clings to the boots of those who walk the narrow, winding lanes. Only a short distance to the north, the Coneyhurst Cutting Sssi preserves a rare, ancient stillness where the soil reveals its hidden geological past. Water defines the edges of Balls Green, with the steady, silver pulse of Par Brook drawing a line through the pastureland toward the west. During the brief, sharp light of winter afternoons, the shadows stretch long and thin, catching the flint-work of old walls that have stood since the fields were first carved from the wild wood. The silence of the surrounding meadows is broken only by the sudden, percussive flight of a pheasant or the distant shifting of livestock. Life in Balls Green turns upon the slow, seasonal pulse of the countryside, indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern world beyond its borders.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Balls Green, West 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 Balls Green includes coordinates 50.999789, -0.432759, in the county of West Sussex, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Balls Green is available on the Balls Green map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the West 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.