Favourite Weather Websites
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Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Leaf T » Sun Apr 03, 2016 11:33 am
Obviously the BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) website http://www.bom.gov.au/?ref=logo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; is excellent with it's wealth of information. A family member is getting into sailing and mentioned Nullschool which looks like it would be useful for cycling but I'm yet to have a proper look.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wi ... 55,-37.929" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Some others that may be of use......
http://bom-wow.metoffice.gov.uk/?timePo ... ilterTags=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.windfinder.com/windstatistics/nullarbor" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/?loc=AUS_FA001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/vic/melbourne/melbourne" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.bom.gov.au/watl/wind/index.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.melbournepollen.com.au/index.php/forecast" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Any other suggestions that have not been mentioned that you use or are simply interesting?
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby RonK » Sun Apr 03, 2016 12:35 pm
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Postby Leaf T » Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:08 pm
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Aushiker » Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:20 pm
+ 1 This is my go to app on my Android tablet and phone. Just wish it was an Android Wear compatible as well.RonK wrote:What? No mention of willyweather or the willyweather app?
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Tim » Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:48 pm
Add the weather stations current observations overlay; Temp, Wind strength and direction, Rainfall since 9.00am, Humidity and that"s all I need to know.
Oh yes, the local and district forecast pages too.
Also, synoptic chart, current and 4 day forecast.
I'm a weather obsessive. Check on the computer at least half a dozen times a day. If it starts raining I check the radar page just to make sure it really is.
I get really cranky if anyone talks and interrupts the ABC radio hourly forecast or the 7.25 PM evening News/Weather.
I double check that the ABC forecast corresponds with the BOM forecast, hopeless. The highpoints of my day are the morning ABC live-cross to the local RAAF Base BOM weather man and then the talk with the Melbourne BOM weather man at 12.30 PM. Sad.
I hate it if the other Apps differ from the BOM. Better for my mental health if I don't look at the other sites/apps.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby il padrone » Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:00 pm
"An unjustified and unethical imposition on a healthy activity."
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby RonK » Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:31 pm
Pocket Weather app is much easier on the eye.
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Favourite Weather Websites
Postby kb » Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:35 pm
Generally a touch more optimistic than BoM. I find the average between the Norwegians and the MetEye about right but MetEye is finer grained in location (matters with wind and rain) and projects further into future.
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http://www.yr.no/place/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/avansert_meteogram.png
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Leaf T » Mon Apr 04, 2016 11:01 am
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby GJ_Coop » Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:21 pm
I'm in NZ now but I am perplexed why those Norwegians can predict our weather considerably more accurately than the locals.kb wrote:http://www.yr.no/place/Australia/Victor ... eogram.png
Generally a touch more optimistic than BoM. I find the average between the Norwegians and the MetEye about right but MetEye is finer grained in location (matters with wind and rain) and projects further into future.
They can give 10 day forecasts for the most obscure locations, like tiny mountain huts, basically any locality that has a name.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Warin » Mon Apr 04, 2016 3:49 pm
All done with computer models. Some of the predictions use several models - compare the results and give you that information too ...GJ_Coop wrote:I'm in NZ now but I am perplexed why those Norwegians can predict our weather considerably more accurately than the locals.
And "All forecasts degrade the further into the future they are made, and with current science and technology forecasts are likely to be good up to 4 days, fair between 5 and 7 days, and poor beyond 7 days regardless of who is making them. "
Norwegians " site is useful because it gives forecasts from the respected European ECMWF model with further processing by met.no. It also gives them for over 8 million places in the world. In the menu, Hour by hour gives a graph and table for the next two days while Long term goes in less detail out to 9 days."
Weatherspark.com "you can choose between forecasts from met.no (i.e. yr.no), which are based on the ECMWF, or World Weather Online, which uses its own proprietary systems."
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby alanm » Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:30 pm
I also like http://www.metvuw.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for the wind.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Farmer Elvis » Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:42 pm
For us this one works well, it gets all the models and weights them to how accurate they have been recently. So it's to be read as say 20% of models are predicting 10mm of rain. Not that their is a 20% chance of 10mm. Obviously the more models predicting the more likely it'll rain. yr is the other common one used by us, accurate with rain hopeless with temperatures. Willy weather is better for wind than rain, yr can be good for wind but is in metres per second
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby WarrenH » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:06 am
Water Info NSW provides real time data of river and stream flows ... http://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm
I've been stopped by swollen streams, several times unable to retreat or go forward. In the Winter of 2014, I spent nearly three weeks in the Western Blue Mountains held up when the Waiborough, Abercrombie, Tarlo and Kiala flooded, twice in rapid succession. The Murrumbidgee and the Goodradigbee have a habit of flooding frequently, damaging roads and bridges, in my neck of the bush.
Back-road and off-road tourers who see many low level and wet crossings, particularly on the Bicentennial National Trail, where there are over a hundred wet crossings in NSW and the ACT, should check this site when the weather goes pear-shaped.
The bridge over Gooramon Ponds Creek in the NW of the ACT on the BNT, knows the power of what's normally a little creek.
A few years ago I was headed to The Rock. The Rock is 35 klicks South of Wagga. On my first attempt Bradleys Creek flooded and on the second attempt the Murrumbidgee flooded to a record height of 9.6m above normal stream flow.
Don't follow the white line.
Flood waters have no respect for tarmac.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Warin » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:51 am
for those planing, or even trying to see when a waterway will go down then the predictive data is more usefull. austweathernews is my goto site for deciding on when to leave.
index to 8 day forecasts - select area from map. http://www.australianweathernews.com/si ... _OCF.shtml He use to do a 15 day forecast but too many took it to be more reliable than it was.
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Postby Aushiker » Fri Jun 10, 2016 12:13 pm
Thanks for sharing. Looks like a handy website.Warin wrote:for those planing, or even trying to see when a waterway will go down then the predictive data is more usefull. austweathernews is my goto site for deciding on when to leave.
index to 8 day forecasts - select area from map. http://www.australianweathernews.com/si ... _OCF.shtml He use to do a 15 day forecast but too many took it to be more reliable than it was.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby Sparx » Fri Jun 10, 2016 1:21 pm
One of my favourite at the moment is Wunderground.com.
I really like the 10 weather graph, it's a really good visual representation of when it's going to rain (e.g. later in the day vs. early morning).
The app is OK too and has the same graphical information.
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby game » Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:05 pm
I would be in GOR next July. I will start my trip from Italy (with a fligh eh eh )
I'll probably land in Melbourne and then I'll go to GOR to Adelaide. Do you think it may be too cold? It's the first time I visit Australia, I have to make photos and videos and I need some tips on places to visit. I can move even in a different zone. Some people tell me to go to Brisbane for better weather condition. I have not yet bought the tickets. Can you help me? thank you
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Re: Favourite Weather Websites
Postby rooftop » Tue Jun 27, 2017 2:24 pm
The GOR will be pretty cold and wet in July (average temps are 7 - 13 C and it rains ~ 14 days on average). It can also get pretty windy. Having said that we are having a pretty mild winter so far .game wrote:Hi guys
I would be in GOR next July. I will start my trip from Italy (with a fligh eh eh )
I'll probably land in Melbourne and then I'll go to GOR to Adelaide. Do you think it may be too cold? It's the first time I visit Australia, I have to make photos and videos and I need some tips on places to visit. I can move even in a different zone. Some people tell me to go to Brisbane for better weather condition. I have not yet bought the tickets. Can you help me? thank you
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