Piece, Cornwall Weather
About Piece, Cornwall
Piece emerges from the rugged Cornish landscape as a quiet cluster of dwellings defined by the enduring legacy of the mining industry. It lies 1.9 miles south-west of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 220°T, OS grid SW 680 399), and is situated west of Carnkie village. The horizon here is dominated by the looming, granite-strewn profile of Carn Brea, which casts a long, watchful shadow over the rooftops of Piece during the late afternoon. This terrain holds a delicate ecological significance, as much of the land falls within the West Cornwall Bryophytes SSSI, where rare mosses and liverworts thrive in the damp, undisturbed crevices of the earth. Beneath the surface, the ground bears the heavy, hollowed memory of South Wheal Francis, where the copper and tin mines once drew the lifeblood of the region into the light. The quality of the light in Piece has a silvery, thin clarity that catches the edges of the stone walls, making the ancient, weathered granite appear almost translucent against the dark gorse. To the south, the remains of the mining complex associated with Marriott's Shaft stand as silent, skeletal sentinels of a vanished industrial era. These structures grant Piece a somber, grounded character, anchoring the modern day to the deep, fire-forged history of the Cornish mines.
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About This Piece, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Piece, 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 Piece includes coordinates 50.213559, -5.252021, 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 Piece is available on the Piece 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.