Blackwater, Cornwall Weather
About Blackwater, Cornwall
Blackwater draws its character from the rugged, mineral-rich pulse of the Cornish mining landscape. It lies 3.2 miles north-east of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 38°T, OS grid SW 734 460), and is situated north-east of Wheal Rose village. Ancient earthworks mark the high ground nearby, where the Two Bowl Barrows at Two Burrows stand as silent sentinels watching over the shifting Atlantic light. Beneath these quiet mounds, the terrain rolls toward the coast, carrying the heavy, rusted memory of industry long departed. The air here holds a crisp, maritime sharpness, cutting through the low-lying hollows that once echoed with the rhythmic clatter of stamps and gears. Further to the west, the traces of prehistoric enclosures near Coosewartha Farm offer a deeper perspective on a land that has been worked by human hands for millennia. Blackwater persists as a thin, linear ribbon of dwellings, its quiet streets reflecting the stark, enduring beauty of a countryside shaped by the relentless extraction of copper and tin.
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Live animated radar for Blackwater and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Blackwater, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blackwater, 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 Blackwater includes coordinates 50.270808, -5.180325, 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 Blackwater is available on the Blackwater 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.