Topic: Bureau Radar Viewer Upgrades

[Steven]

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/about/radar_viewer_announcement.shtml

BOM have upgraded the radar viewer of certain radar sites with two column design and some extra features such as live weather observations from AWSs.

Interestingly as part of their upgrades, they offer their 512km radar images absolutely free.


Steven

[TroyVR]

Just noticed this, wish they would get a nicer radar image for sydney though

[Richary]

The 512km certainly provides a great view of what is happening. Warrego at the moment has storms pushing east to west but then obviously bumping into an airflow from the west stopping things while storms a fair way to the NW are moving SE. Gives a much better pattern.

Now if we only had Doppler out to 512km from all sites :-)

[Steven]

I'm guessing they couldn't stay in the game with Weatherzone's absurdly inexpensive premium services (WZ Silver), that have been offering long distance radar mosaics for ages, so they decided to just give it all away.

[Mike]

I mentioned to MB earlier yesterday that Darwin now has the upgrade also and Doppler images are viewable to us here in the NT with additional features.  Makes for an interesting addition if you understand the complexity of Doppler interpretation.  I understand the basics of what it shows and it will be nice to view it during cyclones - but I'll have to get into it deeper to appreciate it.