Roborough Down, Devon Weather
About Roborough Down, Devon
Roborough Down stretches across the high, wind-brushed horizon as a vast expanse of open moorland where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 5.5 miles south-south-east of Tavistock (from Tavistock: bearing 157°T, OS grid SX 513 662), and is situated north-west of Clearbrook village. This high ground sits firmly within the protected boundaries of Dartmoor National Park, where the gorse and heather endure the relentless passage of Atlantic weather. To the north-west, the rise of Stokehill breaks the skyline, offering a solitary silhouette against the shifting grey light of the West Devon clouds. The landscape here possesses a raw, unadorned clarity, stripped of ornamental hedges and defined instead by the ancient, rhythmic drift of grazing livestock. History remains quiet but present in the form of the Early-Christian Inscribed Stone Near Uphill, a silent witness to centuries of travellers crossing this exposed terrain. Roborough Down acts as a grand, elevated gateway, where the air tastes of salt and peat, and the horizon invites a long, steady gaze across the untamed sweep of the moor.
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About This Roborough Down, Devon Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Roborough Down, Devon, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this suburban area. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Roborough Down includes coordinates 50.477206, -4.096776, in the county of Devon, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Roborough Down is available on the Roborough Down map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Devon 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.