Lower Trewellard commands a rugged stretch of the Cornish coastline, where the Atlantic winds carry the salt of the Celtic Sea across fields of gorse and granite. It lies 1.6 miles north of St Just (from St Just: bearing 5°T, OS grid SW 374 338), and is situated west-south-west of Pendeen village. The light here possesses a singular, bruised quality, shifting rapidly as clouds race over the exposed moors. Below the horizon, the skeletal remains of the Higher Levant Mine stand as silent witnesses to an age when the earth was hollowed out for tin and copper. Beneath the surface, the ghosts of industry persist, though the silence is now broken only by the rhythmic calling of gulls. Lower Trewellard remains tethered to this industrial legacy, defined by the proximity of the Geevor Mine, which rises from the cliff edge like a rusted monument to human persistence. The landscape is marked by the deep, sheltered shadows of Trewellard Bottoms, where the terrain softens momentarily before the land falls sharply into the sea. Winter gales often scour these slopes, leaving behind a clarity of air that makes the distant headlands appear almost within reach.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lower Trewellard, 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 Lower Trewellard includes coordinates 50.146757, -5.676647, 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 Lower Trewellard is available on the Lower Trewellard 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.