Granite outcrops and the salt-stung breath of the Atlantic define the rugged horizon surrounding Trethewey. It lies 4.8 miles south of St Just (from St Just: bearing 170°T, OS grid SW 380 237), and is situated north-north-west of Porthcurno village. Trethewey sits upon a landscape where the earth feels thin, scraped clean by centuries of relentless coastal gales. A short distance away, the Penberth Valley descends toward the sea, its sheltered slopes offering a verdant contrast to the exposed, windswept fields of the plateau. The light here possesses a particular, silvered clarity that renders the stone walls and low-slung dwellings of Trethewey remarkably sharp against the sky. Down in the valley, the Penberth River carves a quiet, persistent path through the bracken, feeding the hidden coves that lie below the cliffs. This corner of Cornwall remains defined by the uncompromising geometry of its fields and the distant, rhythmic surge of the tide.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Trethewey, 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 Trethewey includes coordinates 50.056275, -5.660453, 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 Trethewey is available on the Trethewey 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.