Poundstock, Cornwall Weather
About Poundstock, Cornwall
Poundstock holds the quiet, salt-weathered stillness of the North Cornish coast, where the Atlantic air carries a sharp, metallic clarity. It lies 4.4 miles south of Bude (from Bude: bearing 177°T, OS grid SX 210 995), and is situated south-south-east of Widemouth Bay village. The land here rises and falls in long, muscular swells of pasture, broken only by the thin, silver thread of Wanson Water as it winds its way toward the sea. Ancient earthworks like the Ashbury Camp hillfort loom over these slopes, their grass-grown ramparts marking a silent, centuries-old vigilance over the valley. Poundstock retains a rugged, unvarnished character, indifferent to the transient gaze of the holiday traffic passing toward the coast. The light in the afternoon often turns a pale, bruised violet, catching the stone of the parish church and the scattered farmsteads in a stark, momentary brilliance. Even the modern distractions of the nearby cinema seem small against the immense, shifting horizon that dominates the skyline. This is a landscape of hard edges and deep, resonant echoes, where the weight of the past sits comfortably within the rhythm of the current harvest.
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About This Poundstock, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Poundstock, 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 Poundstock includes coordinates 50.767443, -4.539525, 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 Poundstock is available on the Poundstock 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.