Dragons Green, West Sussex Weather
About Dragons Green, West Sussex
Dragons Green occupies a quiet corner of the Sussex Weald where the heavy clay earth holds the winter rains in dark, reflective pools. It lies 4.8 miles south-south-west of Horsham (from Horsham: bearing 204°T, OS grid TQ 142 234), and is situated north of Shipley village. The landscape here is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of the Western Branch of the River Adur, which winds through the low-lying pastures like a vein of hammered pewter. Ancient hedgerows trace the boundaries of small, irregular fields, preserving a sense of isolation that feels increasingly rare in the South East. To the south-east, the expansive grounds of Knepp Castle stretch across 142 hectares, where rewilding projects have allowed the scrub and thicket to reclaim the formal order of the past. Dragons Green benefits from this proximity to untamed nature, as the call of deer and the rustle of rising raptors often carry across the open water meadows. The light here has a peculiar, bruised quality at dusk, turning the gabled roofs and timber-framed skeletons of local cottages into silhouettes against a pale, cooling sky. Every chimney stack and garden gate seems to hold a private, unhurried history, indifferent to the hurried pace of the nearby motorways.
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About This Dragons Green, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Dragons 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 Dragons Green includes coordinates 50.998899, -0.373602, 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 Dragons Green is available on the Dragons 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.