East Wittering, West Sussex Weather
About East Wittering, West Sussex
East Wittering catches the salt-heavy breath of the English Channel, where the horizon dissolves into a shimmering, bruised line of grey and blue. It lies 4.4 miles north-west of Selsey (from Selsey: bearing 306°T, OS grid SZ 795 972), and is situated south-east of West Wittering village. The low-lying terrain here feels fragile, a thin margin of land constantly negotiating its boundaries with the rising tides. To the south, the quiet flow of Rust Rhyne carries the inland runoff toward the sea, carving a silver vein through the flat, marshy fields. The light in East Wittering possesses a peculiar clarity, bleaching the shingle beaches and sharpening the jagged silhouettes of the coastal defences against the sky. Further west, the ancient, quiet earth of Cakeham Manor stands as a silent sentinel, its history buried beneath the encroaching grasses and the persistent wind. Residents move through the day with the rhythm of the tides, their lives tethered to a landscape that refuses to remain static. This maritime edge offers a stark, bracing beauty, where the land seems always on the cusp of being reclaimed by the restless, churning grey water.
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About This East Wittering, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for East Wittering, 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 East Wittering includes coordinates 50.769459, -0.873738, 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 East Wittering is available on the East Wittering 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.