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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

18:00 EST

Tonight

15°C

Tomorrow

24°C

Possible thunderstorm

possible_thunderstorm

Weather News

Australian snow season update

16:21 EST

Australia's natural snow depth is continuing to slowly decline, alhtough there's still plenty of base left to go sliding around on.

Australian snow season update

16:21 EST

Australia's natural snow depth is continuing to slowly decline, alhtough there's still plenty of base left to go sliding around on at higher elevations.

Season's first southern hemisphere tropical cyclone

10:00 EST

The southern hemisphere's first tropical cyclone of the season has formed near the Solomon Islands and may enter Australian waters before dissipating this week.