Jacobstow, Cornwall Weather
About Jacobstow, Cornwall
Jacobstow reveals its character through the quiet persistence of ancient, moss-covered stone and the salt-tinged winds that blow across the Cornish plateau. It lies 6.8 miles south of Bude (from Bude: bearing 184°T, OS grid SX 197 956), and is situated east-north-east of Wainhouse Corner village. The landscape surrounding Jacobstow is marked by the heavy, silent presence of the earth itself, where the prehistoric bowl barrows near Beckaveans rise like forgotten shoulders against the horizon. To the west, the elevated ground of The Beacon catches the Atlantic light, casting long, sharp shadows over the fields that have been tilled for generations. A short distance away, Treworgie Copse offers a dense, tangled retreat where the air cools and the sunlight thins into pale, vertical shafts. History here is not found in grand monuments but in the subtle shifts of the terrain, where the land holds the memory of those who first cleared the gorse and bramble. Jacobstow remains a place of deep, grounded stillness, where the rhythm of the day is dictated less by the clock than by the slow, inevitable turn of the weather coming in from the coast.
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About This Jacobstow, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Jacobstow, 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 Jacobstow includes coordinates 50.732729, -4.555362, 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 Jacobstow is available on the Jacobstow 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.