Housel Bay, Cornwall Weather
About Housel Bay, Cornwall
Housel Bay captures the salt-bright essence of the Cornish peninsula where the Atlantic currents carve deep, rhythmic patterns into the dark, serpentine cliffs. It lies 10.0 miles south-south-east of Helston (from Helston: bearing 160°T, OS grid SW 708 121), and is situated south-east of Lizard village. Below the high, windswept ground, the waters of the bay possess a clarity that seems to hold the very light of the heavens within their restless, turquoise depths. A traveller walking toward the coast might encounter the Medieval Wayside Cross at Tregaminion, a silent stone witness to the centuries that have weathered the surrounding fields. The air here carries the faint, metallic tang of maritime history, particularly near the Lizard Wireless Station, where the early experiments of Guglielmo Marconi once tethered the isolated coast to the wider world. Beyond the shore, the rugged expanse of the Caerthillian to Kennack SSSI protects a rare botanical legacy, where unique flora clings to the magnesium-rich soil against the relentless spray. Housel Bay remains a place of profound exposure, where the horizon is not merely a line but an infinite, shifting boundary between the solid earth and the vast, unyielding sea.
Flight conditions near Housel Bay. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Housel Bay and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Housel Bay, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Housel Bay, 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 Housel Bay includes coordinates 49.965291, -5.197045, 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 Housel Bay is available on the Housel Bay 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.