Carkeel, Cornwall Weather
About Carkeel, Cornwall
Carkeel reveals itself through the low-slung contours of the Cornish peninsula, where the salt-heavy air of the Tamar estuary meets the quiet insistence of inland fields. It lies 1.6 miles north-west of Saltash (from Saltash: bearing 313°T, OS grid SX 411 606), and is situated south-east of Botus Fleming village. The terrain here holds a particular quality of light, caught between the grey shimmer of the sky and the dark, damp earth of the surrounding agricultural seams. To the north-north-east, the waters of Clark’s Lake pull at the land, their slow, rhythmic pulse defining the drainage of these humbler valleys. Carkeel remains tethered to this topography, its modest architecture shaped by the persistent dampness that rises from the nearby tidal inlets. Just a short distance away, the historic stone of the Martyn Monument serves as a silent, weathered witness to the generations who have worked these heavy soils. These fragments of the landscape retain a gravity that persists despite the encroaching modern thoroughfares, offering a stillness rarely found in the busier corridors of the South West.
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About This Carkeel, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Carkeel, 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 Carkeel includes coordinates 50.424116, -4.237586, 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 Carkeel is available on the Carkeel 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.