Caradon Town, Cornwall Weather
About Caradon Town, Cornwall
Caradon Town occupies a rugged threshold where the granite spine of the Cornish moors begins to soften into green pasture. It lies 4.3 miles west-north-west of Callington (from Callington: bearing 284°T, OS grid SX 291 714), and is situated south-east of Upton Cross village. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity, carrying the scent of gorse and damp earth across the elevated slopes. To the west, the hulking silhouette of Caradon Hill dominates the horizon, its summit a constant, moody companion to the lives below. The landscape is marked by the skeletal remains of industry, where the crumbling granite of the Whim Engine House reflects the hard, industrious toil of a vanished age. A short distance away, the earthwork of the Round Called Roundabury hunkers into the hillside, a quiet circular ghost of ancient occupation. Caradon Town retains a stoic, unadorned character that ignores the decorative whims of modern expansion. It remains a place of long, low light and sudden shadows, where the wind pulls persistently at the coarse grasses of the moor.
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About This Caradon Town, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Caradon Town, 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 Caradon Town includes coordinates 50.517677, -4.411296, 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 Caradon Town is available on the Caradon Town 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.