New Radar Features
The enhanced radar viewer has been developed as part of the Radar Network and Doppler Services Upgrade Project (RNDSUP) and is available for all radars in the Bureau's network. The enhanced radar viewer allows you to customise the radar map so that you can display features that will help you in locating rainfall in relation to your city or town, or in relation to other locations or areas that you are interested in.
New features will be available in the radar viewer from September 3, 2008. These include:
Doppler wind images for the Darwin (Berrimah) radar, as well as for Adelaide,
Brisbane, Melbourne and Yarrawonga radars
512
km range radar mosaics
Enhancements
to the radar viewer
New Radar Controls Layout
Local time is now displayed next to the radar image
Link to the State/Territory Warning Summary
Link to the radar help pages
Map Layers
Next to the map there are a number of views that can be toggled on and
off as needed. These include:
Weather Observations (some selected sites, updated on the hour)
Locations
Range
rings (20, 40, 50, 60, 100 and 200 kilometre distances from the radar, depending
on the selected range)
Topography
(land contours)
Lakes
and major rivers
River
Catchments
Weather
Forecast Districts
Roads
Railways
Nearby
radars. Nearby radars are indicated with a black diamond for Doppler radars,
a red triangle for dedicated weather watch radars and a blue square for
part -time windfinding radars.
Weather Observations
In addition, in the Weather Observations view, you can move the mouse over
the weather report location to access more weather details and, if you wish,
you can double-click the mouse to see the last 72 hours of weather observations
from that site.