Penwithick, Cornwall Weather
About Penwithick, Cornwall
Penwithick wears the pale, dust-dusted mantle of the china clay industry, a place where the earth itself has been turned inside out to reveal a brilliant, chalky heart. It lies 2.4 miles north-north-east of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 11°T, OS grid SX 023 562), and is situated south-east of Stenalees village. The horizon here is dominated by the stark, artificial peaks of spoil heaps, their white slopes catching the low sun to turn the sky into a bruised and flickering slate. Walking toward the Great Treverbyn Mica Dam, one finds the water reflecting a silence that feels heavy with the echoes of heavy machinery and long-departed shifts. To the south-east, the Carn Grey Rock and Quarry Sssi rises as a rugged, stony spine, a jagged reminder of the raw granite that once defined the local labour of generations. Penwithick breathes in the fine, white grit that settles on window ledges and garden walls, colouring the very air with the residue of its own industrious past. This landscape does not hide its scars but displays them as monuments, where the industrial grind has slowly softened into an austere and lonely beauty.
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About This Penwithick, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Penwithick, 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 Penwithick includes coordinates 50.373105, -4.780274, 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 Penwithick is available on the Penwithick 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.