Coolham, West Sussex Weather
About Coolham, West Sussex
Coolham draws its quiet character from the flat, heavy clay soils of the Weald, where the horizon often seems to press down upon the rooftops. It lies 5.7 miles south-west of Horsham (from Horsham: bearing 215°T, OS grid TQ 120 228), and is situated west-south-west of Dragons Green village. The light here catches the damp silts of the nearby River Adur, casting a pale, silvered sheen over the fields during the early hours of the morning. A solitary memorial, Kenny’s Spitfire, stands near the roadside as a stark, metallic punctuation mark against the soft green margins of the lanes. Coolham once served as an Advanced Landing Ground during the Second World War, a history that lingers in the way the wind sweeps across the open, unobstructed paddocks. Further to the east, the expansive grounds of Knepp Castle offer a wilder, rewilded contrast to the managed hedgerows that define the local periphery. The rhythm of life here remains tied to the turning of the seasons, marked by the slow migration of rooks and the deepening of the mud in the darker months. Such stillness allows the mind to wander across the landscape, finding a strange, melancholy beauty in the simple persistence of the land.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Coolham, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Coolham, 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 Coolham includes coordinates 50.994281, -0.404586, 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 Coolham is available on the Coolham 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.