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Sunday 28th February 2021.      

With air pressure high it will stay dry. By day the temperature will rise to around 11C with some sunshine but at first the temperature will fall to near freezing but becoming misty during the night.  Minimum of 1C.   Cloud and mist at first on Monday but brightening up with sunny spells as the morning progresses. Fine PM. Max of 11C.

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Current weather February 28th 2021 at our Heath Common weather station, W Sussex for 14.00 hrs GMT. Temperature 12.0C. Weather-Sunny.  Rain so far this month 55.3mm.

Air pressure 1035 mb (hpa).Falling slowly. 

Stay safe- stay well.  

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See picture below for latest front cover of Weather eye.

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 Above:  Large cumuliform clouds leading to heavy showers building in the distance over the North Downs as seen from the South Downs at Chanctonbury Hill. Taken around 17.00 hrs on the 15th June. It was sunny most of the day on the South Downs and across the south of Sussex, a typical situation in the summer with the Channel preventing showers forming for quite some way inland. It is the opposite in the autumn and winter with enhanced rain for the Downs and coastal locations and this helped to give a mammoth rainfall total for October 2020 of 233.2mm at Storrington.

The first issue of Weather eye in 1998.

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Listen out for me on Sunday February 28th 2021 on BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex, at the new time of 13.20 hrs on the 'Dig It' show. I will look back on February's weather and give a forecast for the whole of March.If you have a weather question contact the programme. Check the time as shedules could change due to the current medical emergency. 

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See Also  'On This Day'  in the Publications section.

The Coming Week from 

Weather Centre

The Chipstead Valley weather station lies within a dry, chalkland valley on the dip slope of the North Downs. The valley is around 60 metres deep.

Read about the Chipstead Valley Station

On This Day- February 22nd 1995

A dramatic line squall crossed the country bringing a combination of strong winds frequent lightning, hail and a spell of snow. There was a sharp drop in temperature falling 6C to 8C in a matter of minutes.  Snow covered the higher parts of the North Downs. In South Wales lightning struck an electricity generator blacking out the centre of Swansea.

The 1903 dust storm continued with the sky at Haverfordwest in west Wales reported as looking like the colour of brass. At Crowborough in Sussex rain was described as being of a remarkable colour and consistency, being thick, and of a dirty, reddish-yellow tint obscuring windows and covering trees and bushes.

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