Hastings to Rye walk

Met Office Forecast

South East England

Sleet, snow clearing. Cold and frosty overnight. Mainly dry.

This Evening and Tonight:

Evening sleet and snow showers will clear from inland areas, although a few may continue across Kent. Becoming frosty and icy as skies clear. Winds will become light inland, breezy near coasts. Minimum Temperature -4C.

Monday:

A frosty start, then a dry, but cold day, often sunny. Winds will be mainly light. A widespread frost will return overnight. Maximum Temperature 4C.

Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday:

Frosty, dry, bright start on Tuesday, then, rain later. Wednesday and Thursday will slowly become less cold, with periods of rain and strong winds.

Day 6-7 and Week 2:

Unsettled conditions look likely to dominate for this period, with low pressure across the UK. Therefore, this should bring changeable weather to most of the country, with periods of rain, showers, and strong winds at times. While mild westerly and southwesterly winds are expected to be dominant for most of the period, occasional colder northerly winds are possible, bringing a chance of snowfall, likely confined to the far northern parts. Towards the end of the period, we may see high pressure bringing a higher than average chance of cold weather more widely with wintry outbreaks. If this were to occur many inland and southern areas would likely see drier than average conditions, with some overnight of frost and fog.

Week 3 and 4:

Confidence is low for this period, but current signals indicate a possible high pressure system around or near the UK during this period. This would likely bring cold northerly winds, producing colder than average temperatures and wintry outbreaks. The second half of February is likely to have a mixture of weather types, with periods of wet, windy and milder weather interspersed with drier, calmer, colder periods.

Met Office : South East England : 2021-01-24T13:31:59

Daylight : East Sussex

Day length is dusk to dawn. Times will vary a little if there is a hill on the horizon.

It should still be light enough to read at dawn and dusk, so there will be enough light for walking even earlier (later).

Moonlight : East Sussex

Notes

• The moon's phase or fracillum (percentage of the moon illuminated) doesn't vary much with location.
• A full moon is not just bigger, its much brighter. A half moon ('50%') give less than 5% of the illumination of a full moon. You can walk with a half moon if its high in the sky (after dusk for a growing moon, before dawn for a shrinking moon).
• Sky glow (light reflected by air or clouds) from nearby cities, and especially snow on the ground also effect light levels.
• Times will vary a few minutes, as (i) these figures are for the centre of the county the walk is in, (ii) if there are hills on the horizon, and (iii) if you are on a hill
• Of course, you need a cloudless night as well!