Gunnislake, Cornwall Weather
About Gunnislake, Cornwall
Gunnislake commands the steep, verdant slopes of the Tamar Valley, where the river carves a restless boundary between Cornwall and Devon. It lies 3.5 miles west-south-west of Tavistock (from Tavistock: bearing 240°T, OS grid SX 431 717), and is situated east-north-east of St Ann's Chapel village. The local topography is defined by the sharp descent toward the water, where the air often carries a damp, metallic tang that suggests the earth’s long industrial memory. Visitors might encounter the monumental stonework of the Gunnislake Clitters Copper, Tin, Arsenic And Wolfram Mine, where the skeletal remains of chimneys pierce the sky like weathered teeth. Closer to the centre, the public artwork of Wheal Talk serves as a quiet sentinel, grounding the modern day against the heavy, subterranean legacy of the extraction industries. Beyond the roads, the remnants of the South Bedford Mine offer a stark, grey contrast to the vibrant greens of the encroaching bracken. Gunnislake maintains a stoic character, shaped by the hard labour of those who once sought mineral wealth beneath the granite crust. The light here has a peculiar quality, filtering through the valley mist to cast long, melancholic shadows across the stone cottages that climb the hillside.
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About This Gunnislake, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Gunnislake, 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 Gunnislake includes coordinates 50.524414, -4.213476, 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 Gunnislake is available on the Gunnislake 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.