Pease Pottage, West Sussex Weather
About Pease Pottage, West Sussex
Pease Pottage emerges from the dense woodland fringe of the Weald, a place where the modern pulse of the motorway meets the ancient, clay-heavy earth of Sussex. It lies 2.3 miles south-south-west of Crawley (from Crawley: bearing 198°T, OS grid TQ 258 330), and is situated east of Colgate village. The air here holds a particular stillness, caught between the persistent hum of traffic and the quiet, moss-softened shadows cast by the nearby trees of Buchan Country Park. Eastward, the rising ground of Benson’s Hill provides a silent, watchful boundary to the horizon, where the light often lingers in long, amber streaks across the low-lying fields. Pease Pottage maintains a character defined by this proximity to the wild, as the water in the nearby House Pond reflects a sky that feels wider and more untamed than the neighbouring suburban sprawl suggests. The landscape is marked by these small, hidden reservoirs and subtle elevations that interrupt the flatness of the terrain, offering a reprieve from the relentless pace of the surrounding region. Every turn in the road reveals how the geography dictates the rhythm of life, grounding the houses in a soil that has seen centuries of transition from dense forest to the current thoroughfare. Through the seasons, the village remains a functional intersection, yet it retains a quiet dignity in its defiance of the encroaching development.
Live animated radar for Pease Pottage and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Pease Pottage, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Pease Pottage, West Sussex, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, 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 Pease Pottage includes coordinates 51.082702, -0.205032, 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 Pease Pottage is available on the Pease Pottage 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. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.