Mountjoy, Cornwall Weather
About Mountjoy, Cornwall
Mountjoy reveals itself as a quiet collection of dwellings where the Cornish earth leans toward the Atlantic breeze. It lies 3.2 miles south-west of St Columb Major (from St Columb Major: bearing 229°T, OS grid SW 872 603), and is situated east of Quintrell Downs village. The landscape surrounding Mountjoy holds the heavy, damp scent of the nearby Porth Reservoir, where the water mirrors the shifting grey and bruised-purple clouds of the west. Ancient stone remnants, such as the Wayside Cross base in Colan Churchyard, stand as silent witnesses to the generations who have worked these stubborn fields. The terrain here is shaped by a long memory of agriculture, with hedgerows that act as tangled, verdant walls against the salt-laden winds. Light in this corner of the county possesses a sharp, clarifying quality, often illuminating the dark iron-rich soil of the lanes with a sudden, metallic brilliance. Mountjoy remains a place of understated endurance, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life far more than the rush of the modern road.
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Live animated radar for Mountjoy and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Mountjoy, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mountjoy, 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 Mountjoy includes coordinates 50.404325, -4.995784, 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 Mountjoy is available on the Mountjoy 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.