Around Cornwall with webcams and weather stations.

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From Boscastle on the north coast and along the west and south coasts of Cornwall you will find National Coastwatch Institution stations, staffed by volunteers, where you can get information on local conditions or report situations where people may be in difficulty.
	NCI Boscastle Tel: (01840) 250 965 (Lookout) Watch Hours: 08:00 - 16:00 365 days a year Email: info@nci-boscastle.co.uk Website: www.nci-boscastle.co.uk
	NCI Stepper Point Tel: (07810) 898041 (Lookout) Watch Hours: Summer: 09:00 - 18:00 Email: derek@oilpainting1.wanadoo.co.uk Website: www.stepper-point.co.uk
	NCI St. Ives Tel: (01736) 799398 (Lookout) Watch Hours: Summer 07:00 - 18:00 (- 21:00 Aug) Email: stives@coastwatch-online.org.uk Website: www.nci-stives.org Weather link: www.nci-stives.org/weather.htm
	NCI Cape Cornwall Tel: (01736) 787890 (Lookout) Watch hours: 08:00 - 16:00 08:00; 16:00 - 20:00 where possible in BST, 365 days per year.
	NCI Gwennap Head Tel: (01736) 871351 (Lookout) Watches: Summer 08:00 - 18:00, later at weekends Email: jobills@btopenworld.com Website: www.nci-gwennaphead.co.uk Weather link: www.landsendweather.info/
	NCI Penzance Tel: (01736) 367063 (Lookout) Watches: Summer 0700 - 1900 Email: ljh.mousehole@btinternet.com
	NCI Bass Point Tel: (01326) 290212 (Lookout) Watches: Summer 08:00 - 20:00 Email: Rtreveharris@aol.com Website: www.nci-basspoint.co.uk
	NCI Polruan Tel: (01726) 870291 (Lookout) Watch Hours: Summer 08:00 - sunset Email: ncipolruan@uwclub.net Website: www.polruan-nci.org.uk Weather link: www.polruan-nci.org.uk/weatherpage.htm
	NCI Rame Head Tel: (01752) 823706 (Lookout) Watches: Summer 09:00 - 19:00 Email: info@nci-ramehead.org.uk Website: www.nci-ramehead.org.uk
The National Coastwatch Institution is a registered charity (No. 1045645). All NCI stations gratefully receive donations to help them maintain their equipment and buildings.
WEATHERWATCH CORNWALL The late Graham Hawkey, founder and developer of Destination Cornwall, was passionate about weather reporting and had a dream to see all NCI stations with a computerised system. He named this dream Weather Watch Cornwall. Over the eight or more years since developing his site, Graham was in daily telephone contact with the National Coastwatch Institution’s (NCI) watch keepers at their lookout stations reporting on wind, temperature, sea state, swell and general coastal conditions. These reports were invaluable to those living and staying in Cornwall but were very time consuming, for all concerned, to compile and distribute. Graham’s idea was to add a level of technology that would support the indispensable role of the watch keepers, with their eyes on the sea (in the above logo), by using a computerised weather monitoring system. He later appreciated that NCI Polruan had just such a system (Davis). These weather systems link with various sensors and instruments and feed into weather display software that provides a car dashboard-like view on the computer screen, with dials and charts showing exactly what is happening with the weather, minute by minute (see for example Polruan: www.polruan-nci.org.uk/weatherpage.htm). Add this to the naked eye reports from the watch keepers and you have the most accurate and current weather reporting system available. If you have such a weather station in Cornwall and are willing to provide a link through Destination Cornwall, then we’d love to hear from you. Please email us and we will reply within 24 hours.
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