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Hobart Airport 256km Radar/Lightning

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Radar Details

Hobart Airport Windfinding and Weather Watch Radar
Tasmania
42.8330°S  147.5100°E  3m AMSL

LocationHobart Airport Radar TypeWF 100 C Band Typical Availability0000-0300; 0430-0900; 1030-1500; 1630-2100; 2230-0000

This installation is primarily a windfinding radar. The coverage in weather watch mode is poor. Surrounded by mountains and hills in most directions, it provides coverage for the immediate area surrounding Hobart Airport, about 40km along the Coal River Valley to the northwest and to the southeast over Frederick Henry Bay to the Tasman Peninsula.

Now Temperature

At Gold Coast

07:30 EST

This morning

13°C

Today

24°C

Mostly sunny

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Weather News

Cattle stations in central Arnhem Land rejoice as massive downfalls signal early start to wet season

15:52 EST

Cattle stations across the Top End of the Northern Territory are celebrating an early start to the wet season with record totals in some areas.

More rain for flooded states

14:02 EST

Australia's four flood-affected states will receive another burst of rain in the next two days.

Northern Territory weather records tumble as September deluge hits

13:43 EST

Rainfall records have tumbled in the Northern Territory after a weekend deluge brought heavy falls to parts of the Top End.