DESTINATION CORNWALL
| Live: Around Cornwall | ||||||
| Take a tour of local websites with webcams and weather stations for actual weather conditions around Cornwall today – just click on the images, and the links below (scroll down). Several webcams and weather stations are operated by the Natioanl Coastwatch Institution's volunteers at lookout stations in Cornwall. | ||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
| Wadebridge Camera: Bridge Bike Hire |
Newquay Camera: Newquay Weather Station |
St Ives Camera: NCI St Ives |
Lands End Camera: NCI Gwennap Head |
|||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
| Rock Camera: The Mariners |
Bude Cameras: Provided & operated by Bude-Stratton Town Council |
Looe Camera: The Watermark |
||||
| For more surf and weather conditions on the beaches of Cornwall visit A1 Surf. | ||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
| Polruan Thanks to NCI Polruan |
St Mawes Thanks to St Mawes |
St Ives Thanks to NCI St Ives |
Lands End Thanks to John at Lands End |
|||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
Perranporth |
Newquay Thanks to Newquay Weather Station |
Bude Thanks to Darren Wickett at Bude |
Bodmin Moor Thanks to Jon at Minions |
|||
 |
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: boscastle@nci.org.uk Website: www.nci.org.uk/boscastle |
|
|
NCI Stepper Point |
|
 |
NCI St Agnes Tel: (01872) 270431 (Lookout) Watch Hours: 1000 - 1600 7 days a week Email: stagnes@nci.org.uk Website: www.nci.org.uk/stagneshead |
|
|
NCI St. Ives |
|
|
NCI Cape Cornwall |
|
|
NCI Gwennap Head |
|
|
NCI Penzance |
|
|
NCI Bass Point |
|
 |
NCI Nare Point Tel: (01326) 231113 (Lookout) Watches: Summer : 0800 Hrs to 2000 Hrs Winter : 0800 Hrs to 1600 Hrs Email: nare.point@nci.org.uk Website: www.nci.org.uk/narepoint |
|
 |
NCI Portscatho Tel: 01726 75255 (Lookout) Watches: 0930 - 1700 Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Email: porthscatho@nci.org.uk Website: www.nci.org.uk/portscatho |
|
 |
NCI Charlestown Tel: 01726 817068 (Lookout) Watches: BST: 0800-2000 GMT: 0800-1600 Email: charlestown@nci.org.uk Website: www.nci.org.uk/charlestown |
|
|
NCI Polruan |
|
|
NCI Rame Head |
|
|
||
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. Since developing his site in 1998, 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. |
||
