Tolcarne, Cornwall Weather
About Tolcarne, Cornwall
Tolcarne holds the rugged, mineral-rich character of the Cornish mining landscape within its quiet bounds. It lies 1.7 miles east of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 87°T, OS grid SW 727 421), and is situated south-south-west of St Day village. The terrain here remembers the industry of the earth, where the soil still carries the faint, metallic scent of deep-vein copper and tin. To the south-west, the high granite mass of Carn Marth rises against the horizon, its slopes marked by the hollowed-out scars of old quarries that now catch the changing light of the Atlantic sky. The nearby ruins of St Day Old Church stand as a skeletal sentinel, their weathered masonry offering a silent contrast to the encroaching gorse and heather. Tolcarne itself remains a place of low-slung, sturdy dwellings that seem to draw their resilience from the surrounding geology. Paths wind through the gorse towards Wheal Gorland, where the rare, crystalline dust of abandoned workings still glimmers underfoot after a rain shower. Life in Tolcarne moves with a steady, unforced cadence, dictated by the shifting winds that sweep across the peninsula from the coast.
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About This Tolcarne, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Tolcarne, 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 Tolcarne includes coordinates 50.235555, -5.187795, 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 Tolcarne is available on the Tolcarne 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.