Fraddon, Cornwall Weather
About Fraddon, Cornwall
Fraddon commands a position of quiet significance upon the Cornish landscape, where the brisk Atlantic air often meets the stillness of the inland hills. It lies 3.2 miles south of St Columb Major (from St Columb Major: bearing 178°T, OS grid SW 912 583), and is situated north-north-east of Penhale village. The light here possesses a peculiar clarity, catching the slate roofs and stone walls as the sun shifts across the open horizon. To the north-east, the historic Indian Queens Pit remains as a sunken echo of the region’s industrial past, a hollow in the earth that has long since traded its clamour for the silence of wild grasses. Fraddon maintains a steady rhythm, serving as a functional intersection where the movement of traffic rarely obscures the underlying resilience of the land. Nearby, the water of the River Gannel traces a slender, silver line through the surrounding meadows, carving its course with an ancient and indifferent persistence. The air in these parts carries the faint, sharp scent of damp earth and salt, a reminder of the proximity to the coast despite the inland elevation. Residents of Fraddon look out over a terrain shaped by generations of extraction and toil, yet softened now by the slow, inevitable return of green cover.
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About This Fraddon, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fraddon, Cornwall, 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 Fraddon includes coordinates 50.387814, -4.93745, in the county of Cornwall, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Fraddon is available on the Fraddon map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cornwall 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.