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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

16:20 EST

Today

29°C

Tonight

22°C

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Weather News

Southern storms

17:09 EDT

Severe thunderstorm warnings have been issued for parts of South Australia and Victoria this afternoon.

Tasmanian floods: BOM and SES lashed by farmers over weather warnings amid June deluge

17:04 EDT

Forecasting by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and SES phone alerts during flooding in Tasmania last June have been criticised as inadequate.

North, central Queensland passenger rail down after heavy rain

16:54 EDT

There are major disruptions for rail passengers in central Queensland after large sections of the track were damaged following days of torrential rain.