Plaistow, West Sussex Weather
About Plaistow, West Sussex
Plaistow occupies a quiet corner of the Weald, where the heavy clay earth clings to the roots of ancient oaks and the lanes narrow into tunnels of hawthorn. It lies 5.9 miles north-north-east of Petworth (from Petworth: bearing 18°T, OS grid TQ 004 307), and is situated west of Ifold village. A short distance away, the rising ground of Nell Ball offers a vantage point over a landscape that seems to hold its breath under the shifting Sussex clouds. The architecture of Plaistow remains anchored by timber-framed houses, their blackened beams reflecting a long history of local woodcraft and agricultural labour. To the north, the sprawling canopy of the Chiddingfold Forest Sssi exerts a quiet gravity, drawing the moisture from the air and cooling the surrounding fields. The church spire acts as a slender needle stitching the horizon to the sky, marking a centre that has held fast through the slow turning of seasons. Here, the silence is not an absence of sound but a density of birdsong and the distant, rhythmic turning of tractor tyres on damp tracks. Plaistow remains defined by these margins, where the wilder reaches of the woods meet the disciplined order of the hedgerow.
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About This Plaistow, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Plaistow, 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 Plaistow includes coordinates 51.067271, -0.567268, 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 Plaistow is available on the Plaistow 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.