Shipton Green breathes with the quiet salt-heavy air of the Manhood Peninsula, where the flat, fertile earth meets the grey expanse of the sea. It lies 4.8 miles south-west of Chichester (from Chichester: bearing 229°T, OS grid SZ 802 996), and is situated south-south-east of West Itchenor village. Open fields stretch toward the horizon, punctuated by the sharp, bracing gusts that travel inland from the Chichester Channel. The light here possesses a pale, translucent quality, reflecting off the wetlands of Longmore Point to cast an ethereal shimmer across the low-lying lanes. Shipton Green remains tethered to the rhythm of the tides, watching the slow, rhythmic pulse of the water as it shifts through the nearby coastal reaches. The surrounding landscape, shaped by the proximity of the Chichester Harbour SSSI, keeps a watchful silence over the scattered dwellings and hedge-lined tracks. Here, the soil carries the weight of centuries of agricultural toil, offering a stark, unadorned beauty that changes with the turning of the seasons.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Shipton Green, 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 Shipton Green includes coordinates 50.791183, -0.862291, 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 Shipton Green is available on the Shipton Green 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.