Great Thorness, Isle of Wight Weather
About Great Thorness, Isle of Wight
Great Thorness emerges from the coastal edge of the Isle of Wight as a quiet threshold between the salt-licked Solent and the deepening, wooded interior. It lies 3.5 miles south-west of Cowes (from Cowes: bearing 232°T, OS grid SZ 451 925), and is situated north-north-east of Porchfield village. The landscape here breathes with the tidal pulse of the nearby Thorness Bay SSSI, where the cliffs soften into clay and the mudflats offer a grey, metallic sheen under the afternoon sun. Great Thorness maintains a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pace of the mainland, governed instead by the slow, seasonal migration of birds across the water. To the west, the land rises toward the modest, rounded contours of Shepherd’s Hill, providing a vantage point over the patchwork of fields that define this rural corner. The wind carries a faint, sharp tang of brine, a constant reminder that the sea is carving its own history into the shoreline. Shadows lengthen across the meadows as the light thickens into a bruised, golden hue, casting the low-lying terrain into sharp, contemplative relief. This corner of the island remains a place of singular perspective, where the horizon feels wide enough to hold the weight of the sky.
Flight conditions near Great Thorness. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Great Thorness and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Great Thorness, Isle of Wight Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Thorness, Isle of Wight, 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 Great Thorness includes coordinates 50.730665, -1.361268, in the county of Isle of Wight, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Thorness is available on the Great Thorness map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Isle of Wight 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.