New BOM Website

[octave]

1 minute ago, old man emu said:

Wind and temperature at BOM weather stations. Can't say anything about rainfall as it's not present today. 

Do you mean the current wind at a given location?

[old man emu]

Just now, octave said:

Do you mean the current wind at a given location?

Yep. Current wind, temp, humidity etc that was available on the old version. 

[octave]

1 minute ago, old man emu said:

Yep. Current wind, temp, humidity etc that was available on the old version. 

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

 

 

[octave]

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

 

[nomadpete]

They seem to have copied WINDY.COM for their wind map.

 

I like WINDY for an overview and forecast. The map shows present wind at weather stations, isobars and fronts.

 

For rain radar, I have a link that takes me straight to BOM radar at my nearest radar.

[onetrack]

I've found the radar map, but it's effectively hidden from the weather forecasting page, and it appears the only way to find it, is to search for "radar".

 

https://www.bom.gov.au/weather-and-climate/rain-radar-and-weather-maps

 

There's no loop controls on the radar images, unlike the old site, where a large range of controls on the radar imagery is possible.

 

https://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDR703.loop.shtml#skip

 

Edited 5 hours ago by onetrack

[rgmwa]

The new radar images don’t seem to have the clarity of the old ones for some reason.

[octave]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

There's no loop controls on the radar images, unlike the old site, where a large range of controls on the radar imagery is possible.

 

The map loops automatically. Instead of buttons, you can play or pause or drag the progress bar. Instead of the 64km, 128km, etc buttons, you have the ability to zoom smoothly between the minimum and maximum zoom.  Instead of clicking the arrows to move to the next radar station, you can just drag the map all the way across the country if you wish. This dragging seems less clunky than clicking to move from one radar station to another. The drag and zoom is more like Google Earth or Google Maps.  To me, at least, this is much more usual.     

 

I guess it's down to personal preference. Having followed this on Reddit and other places, there does seem to be a lot of hysteria.  It is clear a proportion of people bagging haven't really used it for more than a couple of minutes 

 

Here is a screen capture of me briefly using both radars (a bit too compressed in order to upload).  Moving around the map is just smoother than the clunk clunk of click buttons.