Altarnun, Cornwall Weather
About Altarnun, Cornwall
Altarnun reveals itself through the grey, enduring granite of its church, a structure often called the Cathedral of the Moors. It lies 7.0 miles west-south-west of Launceston (from Launceston: bearing 252°T, OS grid SX 223 812), and is situated north-north-west of Fivelanes village. The light here pulls long, silver shadows across the ancient stones of the medieval wayside cross standing silently in the churchyard. Beyond the church, the land rises toward the rugged, wind-brushed heights of Trekennick Tor, where the air tastes of salt and distant gorse. Further south, the dampened, quiet expanse of Trewint Marsh holds the winter rains, mirroring the shifting moods of a vast Cornish sky. Altarnun remains a place where the weight of centuries presses into the bedrock, marked by the steady, unpretentious endurance of those who walk its lanes. The water of the nearby streams cuts through the landscape with a persistent, rhythmic clarity that has shaped the valley for ages. Time seems to gather in the hollows here, lingering long after the sun has slipped behind the western hills.
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About This Altarnun, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Altarnun, 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 Altarnun includes coordinates 50.604084, -4.512215, 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 Altarnun is available on the Altarnun 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.