Banns Vale, Cornwall Weather
About Banns Vale, Cornwall
Banns Vale holds a quiet stillness where the salt-heavy winds from the Atlantic meet the rolling, grass-tufted slopes of Cornwall. It lies 3.7 miles north of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 8°T, OS grid SW 712 480), and is situated north-west of Mount Hawke village. The light here possesses a singular, thin clarity, often casting long, sharp shadows across the ancient field boundaries that define the local terrain. To the north-west, the verdant, sheltered depths of Chapel Coombe draw the eye, offering a sudden, lush contrast to the exposed ridges that stretch toward the coast. Banns Vale remains marked by the ghosts of a deeper industrial past, where the earth still bears the subtle indentations of a landscape once worked by tin streamers and miners. Only a short distance away, the silhouette of the Addit monument stands as a silent sentinel, watching over the gorse-clad hills that guard the approach to the sea. The air carries the faint, bracing tang of the brine, a reminder that the wild, crashing surf of Porthtowan Beach is never far from the thoughts of those who live here. Through the seasons, the land shifts from a pale, muted gold in the summer drought to a deep, bruised purple when the heather blooms across the higher ground.
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Live animated radar for Banns Vale and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Banns Vale, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Banns Vale, 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 Banns Vale includes coordinates 50.287595, -5.212967, 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 Banns Vale is available on the Banns Vale 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.