Mackerel's Common, West Sussex Weather
About Mackerel's Common, West Sussex
Mackerel's Common remains a sequestered pocket of West Sussex where the damp, clay-heavy earth clings to the boot and the morning mist lingers long after the sun has climbed the sky. It lies 4.6 miles north-north-east of Petworth (from Petworth: bearing 32°T, OS grid TQ 016 279), and is situated north of Kirdford village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, deliberate gravity, with the gentle rise of Staples Hill looming just a short distance to the south-west as a silent guardian of the horizon. Ancient hedgerows trace the boundaries of fields that have been tilled since the memory of the parish first took hold, their tangled hawthorn and hazel acting as living fences. Mackerel's Common maintains a quiet dignity, far removed from the clamour of modern thoroughfares, where the air possesses a peculiar, sharp clarity that seems to sharpen the outline of every oak and twisted branch. To the north-east, the remains of the Wephurst Glass House serve as a ghostly reminder of an industry that once drew heat and fire from the local timber to forge fragile vessels for the gentry. The light here has a way of catching the silvered bark of the trees, casting long, lean shadows that stretch across the lanes as evening approaches. It is a place where the seasons dictate the pace of life, governed not by the clock, but by the turning of the soil and the rising of the damp from the low-lying hollows.
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About This Mackerel's Common, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mackerel's Common, 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 Mackerel's Common includes coordinates 51.041801, -0.551792, 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 Mackerel's Common is available on the Mackerel's Common 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.