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For those who prefer a map. I am not a huge fan of the colour coding; however, you can click on any place name and get the information in text form

It is definitely available. Temp at the moment is 17.3 In my location, the current wind is 7 knots wsw, currently climbing to 9 knots at 1PM (and predicted hourly) Humidity 49% predicted hourly, looks like it will get more humid tonight 84% at 11PM https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/o2577556437-north-geelong#today

Do you mean the current wind at a given location?

What information is missing? On my page I can see: The current temp and a prediction of a possible shower Hourly forecast Chance of rain hourly wind speed current and hourly wind gusts current and hourly humidity, current and hourly Dew point current and hourly UV index current and hourly Cloud cover current and hourly Mixing height, current and hourly forest fire index

Yep, unless this is a red herring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center

Scroll to the bottom and you should see the radar map. Click on the cross to zoom in. Drag the map around if you want to see elsewhere in Aus. https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/bvic_pt042-melbourne Here is a link to the old radar site https://reg.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/

Aren't you looking at neighbouring radar sites on the new page? Except that you are zooming and dragging, you can still see what is happening next door. Zoom out to see the neighbouring area, zoom out more to see the region, zoom out more to see the state, zoom out more to see all of Australia. Drag the map across to look at anywhere in Australia.

I like the fact that you can tailor your page to a bare minimum if you like the temp, wind and rain, or you can have things like hourly predicted cloud cover and mixing layer height if you want. I have spent about 3 hours now playing around with it, and the more I use it, the more sense it makes. There are some items not on it yet that are still available on the old site. These items will be added. My understanding is that there is nothing from the old site that isn't on the new site or will be added to the new site.

You can tailor what information is displayed for you. My page requires scrolling because I have selected "show all" You can cut it down to "temperature and rain" "wind", or "humidity,UV and cloud". I have mine set to all.

I think it gives you an estimation based on the current rain detected. I am guessing it is saying that this rain shower moving from the west towards Geelong is expected to travel at this speed and take a particular path. He is a 60-minute rain prediction based on the current rainfall intensity and current track. This is a very short prediction. I have no idea how accurate its predictions are.

Yes, although BMW dropped this extender motor from the 2019 model as batteries got bigger and cheaper.

My understanding is that the radar can only detect rain, not clouds. I have the old and new radar maps up at the moment; they appear to be showing the same information. The new radar does not appear to allow changing the speed; however, you can go frame by frame with the play-pause button. I do like the way you can change the radar from rain rate to rain reflectivity to estimated rain in the next 60 minutes. I could be wrong but I don't think these are available on the old radar site. I do like the fact that you can zoom out to see the whole country. With the old radar, if I was travelling to Adelaide, I would look at the radar here in Melbourne, and then I would have to select off the weather map the Adelaide radar. Now I can just zoom out and see the radar along my route or the whole country I suspect that the biggest issue is finding our way around a site we have become used to. It has only been out a short time, and some of the criticisms I have read in news articles are not correct as in you can't get a particular feature anymore when actually you can. It is early days, and it does take time for people to adapt

Isn't the radar at the bottom of the page if you scroll down? You can click on rain (to get radar) or wind or waves

My son owned one of these as his first EV. It was a lot of fun to drive. During the time we drove it, I don't think the range-extending motor kicked in at all. A pleasant car to drive with a few interesting quirks. My son even took it to a track day

I am going to be the odd one out. I quite like it. This is the page I have set it to land on, and it appears to have everything I need to know on one page. https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/o2577556437-north-geelong#today

If Australia were able to legislate to ensure that all super investments could only be invested within Australia, and every other country did the same for their country would it be a net gain or loss for Australia? Super funds from the US or Europe, etc., invest their members' wealth in other countries, including Australia. If every country only invested only in their own country, would Australia be better or worse off? I don't know the answer to this question, but I suspect perhaps worse off

Just two further points that just occurred to me. For the investor, spreading money between this country and overseas spreads the risk. If all your money is invested in Australia and the Australian economy goes bad you have all of your eggs in one basket. Whilst we invest money in foreign economies, surely foreign economies invest money in our economy.

I think it was 2005 when you could choose your own super, and not have your employer choose for you. I think people may have gotten into the habit of not thinking about their super.

Yes, I get that, and that is why I chose super that invest in Australia. I am thinking, though that whether investing overseas is good or bad must not be a clear-cut thing. I bought a bunch of Tesla shares when they were dirt cheap and when I sold them, they were worth 8 times the original investment. To my mind (and I am happy to be corrected), on the downside, the money I used to buy the shares was taken out of circulation in Australia. On the upside, that money is now back in the Australian economy, some of it in term deposits and some being spent here in Australia. OME, I am mostly in agreement with your point, I am just saying it is not black and white. The other issue is, and I can only speak of my super fund, you can choose to invest in only Australian shares or international shares or you can choose a mix of those shares by percentage.

If your money is invested overseas, doesn't the money you invest plus interest end up back in Australia when you take your money?

We drove out of our place on the way for a day trip. At the first traffic light, the car behind me beeped. I assume I had raced off quickly enough when the light turned green. After we passed through the intersection, he was still beeping and flashing his lights. I angrily pulled over and threw my door open, ready to confront this person. I slammed my door closed, and as I aggressively strode towards him, he pointed to my car. There was my beloved and expensive SLR camera on the roof of the car. The only reason it had not fallen off was that the neck strap was caught in the door. The man came up and I apologised for the angry gesticulations, and we had a bit of a laugh about it.

I started my working life in the RAAF. The equivalent of super was DFRDB (death, something retirement -can't quite remember what it stood for.) As superannuation, it was a bit sh1t. It was great if you stayed in for 20 years, but short of that, you pretty much got back exactly what YOU put in. When I left in 1990, I got an enormous amount of $14000. Just as I was leaving, the DFRDB system was changing because compulsory superannuation was introduced, and the military equivalent was too inferior. I think you could choose to stay with the old system (if your 20 years are nearly up) or go with the new one, which would be better in the long run. My wife and I pretty much dropped out and sold our expensive Blue Mountains house, and built our own house on 44 acres of bush. We lived on part-time work, so we were not accruing super. I assumed we would have to work until we dropped. Gradually, we got sucked back into more or less full-time work. We moved to Melbourne, and my wife got a reasonably well-paying job. About 10 years ago, we decided that we should think about retiring early, but we had sod all super. My wife did a course and learned the ins and outs of superannuation. At the time, we still owned our house interstate, and we were renting in Melbourne. My wife did all the "salary sacrifice" that was legally allowed (at the time $25000 a year). We bought an extremely cheap unit in Geelong and sold our house, and put the money into super. About 6 years ago, my wife retired at 57. I had been teaching music, but I was phasing out until I gave it away completely. We pretty much live on the same amount as the aged pension, but we can also draw extra for holidays and other treats. We are hoping to get to pension age with a buffer for treats and holidays etc. We are hoping to have a sum of money left when we reach pension age for the holidays and treats etc. We had always assumed that we had missed the boat superannuation-wise wise but we were able to catch up at least enough to have a pleasant life.

This is why you have to take an active interest in your super Yep, that is a pretty good return. Mine was 10.7% but that was last year, over 20 years, it was more like 6%. The year we retired was a cracking 19%. We would take our monthly payment, and the balance kept going up. This was never likely to continue in the long term. Then came the Covid crash, although this seems to have been made up for since. My worry now is the coming Trump crash. We observe closely to see if/when we should pull out our super and put it in term deposits.

I totally agree. I have been doing my research for the last 35 years. Independent audits indicate that its portfolio broadly aligns with my ethics. I suspect that many people don't actively choose or manage their super.