Mulfra exhales the cool, salt-tinged breath of the Atlantic across its rugged, granite-strewn horizons. It lies 2.9 miles north-north-west of Penzance (from Penzance: bearing 337°T, OS grid SW 454 346), and is situated north of Madron village. The terrain here belongs to the West Penwith Moors and Downs SSSI, where the earth is thin and the gorse glows with a defiant, honeyed intensity against the slate-grey sky. Mulfra stands as a sentinel of stone, marked by the weathered silhouette of Mulfra Quoit, which crowns the nearby rise like a skeletal crown abandoned by giants. Below this ancient portal, the remnants of human history linger in the quiet shadows of the scheduled monument north of Mulfra Farm. The wind here carries no artifice, scouring the hillsides until only the essential geometry of the rock and the pale, flickering light of the coast remain. Such solitude invites a reverence for the landscape, where the silence is not an absence of sound, but a heavy, humming presence that defines the character of the moors. Every stone and furrowed path suggests a long, unspoken dialogue between the people who laboured here and the unyielding granite beneath their feet.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mulfra, 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 Mulfra includes coordinates 50.157523, -5.565527, 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 Mulfra is available on the Mulfra 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.