Porthoustock, Cornwall Weather
About Porthoustock, Cornwall
Porthoustock emerges from the rugged coastline of the Lizard Peninsula as a stark testament to the enduring relationship between stone and tide. It lies 6.7 miles south of Falmouth (from Falmouth: bearing 177°T, OS grid SW 805 218), and is situated east-south-east of Trenance village. Dark, serpentinite cliffs frame the horizon, catching a grey-blue light that shifts with the restless Atlantic swell. Porthoustock Beach sits just a short walk away, its shore composed of polished pebbles that clatter rhythmically against one another as the water retreats. To the north, the damp, quiet expanse of the Pedn Tiere wetland provides a sudden contrast to the hard, mineral-rich geology of the surrounding coast. The hamlet maintains a lingering resonance of its industrial past, when the quarries here exported stone that helped construct the foundations of distant cities. Today, the salt-crusted air carries the sharp scent of kelp and the mechanical hum of occasional marine traffic. Porthoustock remains a place of elemental focus, where the land abruptly concludes and the sea asserts its vast, unyielding authority.
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About This Porthoustock, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Porthoustock, 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 Porthoustock includes coordinates 50.056005, -5.066644, 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 Porthoustock is available on the Porthoustock 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.