Elsted, West Sussex Weather
About Elsted, West Sussex
Elsted commands a quiet authority over the verdant folds of the West Sussex landscape. It lies 4.4 miles west-south-west of Midhurst (from Midhurst: bearing 256°T, OS grid SU 816 195), and is situated east of East Harting village. The geography here is defined by the chalky spine of the South Downs National Park, where the light seems to linger longer, catching the pale curvature of the hills. Beneath these high ridges, the air remains cool and carries the faint, sharp scent of ancient earth. To the south-east, the skeletal remains of the ruined church stand as a solemn sentinel, reminding the traveller of a time when local devotion was carved directly into the flint walls. Further south, the steep, wooded slopes of Rook Clift SSSI provide a sanctuary for flora that thrives in the damp, shaded silence of the chalk escarpment. Elsted remains a place where the modern world feels distant, replaced by the persistent, unyielding presence of the chalk hills. One senses that the foundations of Elsted were laid not by grand design, but by a slow, respectful alignment with the contours of the land itself.
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Live animated radar for Elsted and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Elsted, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Elsted, 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 Elsted includes coordinates 50.969982, -0.839002, 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 Elsted is available on the Elsted 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.