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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.

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At Gold Coast

11:00 EST

Today

28°C

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Weather News

NSW weather: Foreign student swept off Nobbys Beach rocks remains missing

10:43 EDT

A man remains missing after being swept off rocks and into the sea at Nobbys Beach at Newcastle in the New South Wales Hunter region.

Wet start of the week coming to Melbourne

13:46 EDT

Stunning sunny skies across Victoria are about to give way to wet weather, especially in the south.

Wet and wild week for coastal Queensland

12:52 EDT

With a lingering coastal trough and developing low pressure system, the coming week is set to be soaking and thundery for many parts of the Queensland coastal fringe.