West Dean, West Sussex Weather
About West Dean, West Sussex
West Dean holds a quiet authority over the chalky contours of the Lavant Valley, where the flint-knapped walls catch the pale, northern light of Sussex. It lies 4.8 miles north of Chichester (from Chichester: bearing 1°T, OS grid SU 860 125), and is situated west-south-west of Singleton village. Protected by the rolling chalk escarpments of the South Downs National Park, the landscape here possesses a luminous, ancient stillness. West Dean Gardens offers a sensory retreat just to the south, where the meticulous restoration of historic glasshouses preserves a Victorian devotion to horticulture. A short distance away, the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum rescues the timber skeletons of vanishing rural life, reassembling them under the expansive, wide-reaching sky. The earth itself holds older secrets, with the Roman Villa on Warren Down providing a silent, subterranean connection to the distant past. West Dean remains a place where the heavy, verdant silence of the woods balances the disciplined order of the cultivated estate.
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Live animated radar for West Dean and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This West Dean, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for West Dean, 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 West Dean includes coordinates 50.905601, -0.777967, 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 West Dean is available on the West Dean 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.