New BOM Website

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, octave said:

Is it objectively poor or just slower until you get to know it?

I suppose that I should know by now that for all my bitching, the site is going to be what it is from now on. With a bit of playing about with it, I'll get used to it.

 

I just found how to display all the information I want, including the radar image, and I've replaced the old bookmark link with the one that takes me to Gilgandra's info. 

[octave]

2 minutes ago, old man emu said:

With a bit of playing about with it, I'll get used to it.

I believe in you OME 🙂

[rgmwa]

This doesn't make much sense to me.

[spacesailor]

BOM ,  must be  BAD ! .

october 22nd , Hottest day ,almost 40 °   Penrith .

bom Launch october 22 nd GOT COOLER every day since .

(  16 °,back in winter clothing ).

spacesailor

Edited 19 hours ago by spacesailor

[octave]

1 hour ago, rgmwa said:

This doesn't make much sense to me.

 

It means no chance of rain, doesn't it?  It might seem odd when there is no rain predicted, but  I assume those headings are there all the time and they are populated with data. If there is no rain forecast, then the columns are populated with zero mm. What should it say?. If I look at Brisbane at 5PM, there is a 25% (low ) chance of at least 9mm and a 50% chance of at least 4mm. 

 

I don't think this way of expressing the probability of rain has changed much. Here is the predicted rainfall from the old BOM site.

https://reg.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/rainfall/pme.jsp  You need to click on the chance of rainfall button.

 

I am not sure if it is any better than the new site.  I guess we want to know if it is likely to rain, and if it does, how much rain is likely.

 

I think both old and new sites can display forecasts to various levels of detail

 

These are both from the new site

 

 

This is from the old site.

 

It just tells us that there is a high chance it will rain up to 4mm without predicting whether it will be more likely to be at the high end of that prediction or the low end.

 

In any case, I don't see these differences are big enough to drive someone to end it all.   There are other weather services, such as Williweather or Weatherzone or Weatherwatch or Elders, among others, as well for the time being, the old.

BOM site. I read an article where a man said he wanted to smash his phone with a hammer. This seems to be a little over the top, and I expect it was a bit with a little help from the rage-farming media outlets.  

 

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by octave

[rgmwa]

11 minutes ago, octave said:

It means no chance of rain, doesn't it? 

Well, a `medium to very low chance of at least zero' rain, is a funny way to say no rain expected but I guess they are stuck with the heading format which works fine for when some rain is forecast.