Rackham, West Sussex Weather
About Rackham, West Sussex
Rackham reveals itself as a quiet assembly of dwellings caught in the amber light of the Sussex Weald. It lies 4.7 miles north-north-east of Arundel (from Arundel: bearing 24°T, OS grid TQ 048 140), and is situated east-north-east of Cross Gate village. The chalky earth here anchors Rackham firmly within the protected expanse of South Downs National Park, where the horizon broadens under a wide, pale sky. To the north, the ancient spirits of the landscape remain undisturbed within the Round Barrow Cemetery in Rackham Plantation, where earthen mounds rise like slow breaths from the turf. Below these silent sentinels, the land dips towards the expansive Amberley Wild Brooks, a vast wetland that mirrors the passing clouds in its intricate, flooded channels. The air carries a sharp, clean clarity that seems to sharpen the edges of the flint-walled houses and the surrounding hedgerows. Visitors often look towards the nearby sand cliff, a geological rupture that exposes the raw, golden marrow of the hillsides to the sun. This terrain persists as a place of deliberate solitude, where the weight of the past is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring texture of the flint and the persistent, unhurried growth of the surrounding woods.
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About This Rackham, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Rackham, 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 Rackham includes coordinates 50.916689, -0.50933, 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 Rackham is available on the Rackham 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.