Portlooe, Cornwall Weather
About Portlooe, Cornwall
Portlooe commands a rugged stretch of the Cornish coastline where the Atlantic wind leaves a sharp, salt-crusted tang upon the skin. It lies 0.9 miles west-south-west of Looe (from Looe: bearing 247°T, OS grid SX 241 527). The terrain here rises in stubborn, jagged undulations, forcing the hedgerows to lean permanently landward as if recoiling from the sea’s relentless pressure. Only 0.2 miles to the north-north-west, the still waters of Wayland Reservoir provide a quiet, glass-like contrast to the churning surf that defines the horizon. The light in Portlooe possesses a peculiar, silvery clarity, often bleaching the stone walls of the older dwellings until they mirror the grey hues of the shifting tide. Travelers wandering toward the coast might encounter the remnants of The Monks' House, where the crumbling masonry seems to hold the silence of centuries against the roar of the breakers. Life in Portlooe remains bound to this unyielding geography, where the earth is thin and the gorse blooms with a fierce, yellow defiance. Such a landscape demands a certain fortitude from its inhabitants, who have long looked toward the water not as a barrier, but as the primary architect of their endurance.
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About This Portlooe, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Portlooe, 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 Portlooe includes coordinates 50.34813, -4.473697, 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 Portlooe is available on the Portlooe 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.