Wiston, West Sussex Weather
About Wiston, West Sussex
Wiston occupies a quiet expanse of West Sussex where the chalky earth meets the verdant, rolling folds of the landscape. It lies 2.7 miles north-west of Steyning (from Steyning: bearing 314°T, OS grid TQ 143 142), and is situated east of Rock village. The ancient silhouette of Chanctonbury Ring rises sharply to the south, its crown of beeches serving as a silent, arboreal sentinel over the horizon. Wiston rests securely within the protected embrace of the South Downs National Park, where the light often catches the flint-knapped walls of local architecture with a pale, silver brilliance. To the south, the shadowed, wooded ravine of Hanby's Ghyll carves a deep, cool incision into the terrain, offering a refuge of damp moss and fern. The presence of the estate house lends a stately gravity to the surroundings, grounding the hamlet in a long tradition of agricultural stewardship. Here, the air holds the scent of damp loam and distant sea salt, carried on winds that traverse the open ridges. Travelers passing through Wiston encounter a silence that feels deliberate and vast, undisturbed by the modern pulse of the nearby A24.
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Live animated radar for Wiston and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Wiston, West Sussex Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Wiston, 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 Wiston includes coordinates 50.916043, -0.373988, 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 Wiston is available on the Wiston 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.