Black Cross, Cornwall Weather
About Black Cross, Cornwall
Black Cross emerges from the Cornish landscape as a modest collection of dwellings connected by the quiet, purposeful veins of local lanes. It lies 1.8 miles south of St Columb Major (from St Columb Major: bearing 184°T, OS grid SW 909 607), and is situated north-north-west of Trevarren village. Low-hanging clouds frequently brush the verdant fields surrounding Black Cross, casting a slate-grey sheen over the hedgerows that define the perimeter of the pastureland. A short distance away, the Devil's Quoit stands as an ancient, weathered sentry, its presence imbuing the nearby earth with a sense of prehistoric permanence. The light here possesses a singular, piercing clarity, particularly in the late afternoon when the sun catches the damp stone of the older garden walls. Residents often look toward the gentle rise of the horizon, where the landscape stretches out toward the distant, shimmering expanse of Ruthvoes Reservoir. History lingers in the very topography, suggesting a past shaped by the slow movement of agricultural life rather than the clamour of industry. Black Cross remains a place of understated endurance, where the wind carries the faint, bracing scent of the Atlantic from the north.
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About This Black Cross, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Black Cross, 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 Black Cross includes coordinates 50.409055, -4.943381, 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 Black Cross is available on the Black Cross 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.