Patching, West Sussex Weather
About Patching, West Sussex
Patching reveals itself as a collection of flint-walled cottages and ancient silences held within the chalky embrace of the South Downs National Park. It lies 4.3 miles east of Arundel (from Arundel: bearing 97°T, OS grid TQ 087 063), and is situated west-north-west of Clapham village. To the north, the steep rise of Patching Hill gathers the morning mist, drawing the eye toward the rolling spine of the downs where the wind tastes of salt and crushed limestone. The village maintains a quiet gravity, its lanes winding past gardens where the light catches the pale, translucent edges of autumn leaves. A short walk to the south-south-east leads to Patching Pond, a mirror for the sky that remains undisturbed by the passage of modern transit. The echoes of the past linger in the nearby earth, where the remnants of ancient enclosures and burial sites suggest a long dialogue between the inhabitants and the stubborn, flint-strewn soil. Patching endures as a place of subtle shifts, where the slow rotation of the seasons dictates the rhythm of the day far more than the frantic pulse of the world beyond the hills.
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About This Patching, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Patching, 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 Patching includes coordinates 50.846848, -0.456668, 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 Patching is available on the Patching 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.