Boscean, Cornwall Weather
About Boscean, Cornwall
Boscean remains a sparse collection of dwellings tethered to the rugged, granite-strewn shoulder of the Penwith peninsula. It lies 0.7 miles north-west of St Just (from St Just: bearing 313°T, OS grid SW 363 321), and is situated south-west of Botallack village. The Atlantic gales scour this exposed terrain, leaving the gorse and stunted hawthorn to lean perpetually toward the east. To the north-east, the Tregeseal Stream carves a narrow, persistent path through the earth, its quiet rush providing a faint, constant counterpoint to the silence of the surrounding fields. The dark, jagged ruins of the Kenidjack Arsenic Works stand nearby as a stark reminder of the extractive industry that once dominated the horizon. Boscean occupies a landscape where the thin soil barely conceals the ancient, mineral-rich bedrock beneath. Beyond the immediate cluster of stone walls, the ruins of the Cargodna Pumping House loom against the sky, their skeletal chimneys marking the transition from agricultural solitude to industrial ghostliness. Light here possesses a crystalline, unforgiving quality, sharpening the edges of every granite lintel and drystone boundary.
Flight conditions near Boscean. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Boscean and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Boscean, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Boscean, 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 Boscean includes coordinates 50.131046, -5.690879, 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 Boscean is available on the Boscean 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.