Canberra 256km Radar/Lightning
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Radar Details
New South Wales/ACT
LocationCaptains Flat Radar TypeWSR 74 S Band Typical Availability24 hours
The Captains Flat radar has a very good view in all directions and is the primary weather radar for the A.C.T., the Southern Tablelands and the New South Wales south coast, with coverage extending across the Monaro region through to the Victorian border. The radar dish is situated on a 22.35m cylindrical tower atop Mt Cowangerong, at a height of 1,381.6 metres above sea level. An area of permanent false echoes is evident about 20km off the coast between Batemans Bay and Moruya (East to East South East) and extending a further 80km out to sea. This anamolous propagation is easily identified and displays as a mass of low intensity echoes, constantly changing shape but with no apparent direction of movement. True rain echoes normally have a consistent direction of movement from one scan to the next.
Now Temperature
At Gold Coast
18:00 EST
24°C
29°C
Possible shower
Weather News
Heatwave grips Queensland as Roma and Brisbane suffer an unending run of scorchers
18:20 EDT
Severe heatwave conditions along the length of the Queensland coast have brought a record-breaking run of high temperatures to the southern inland town of Roma and unrelenting searing weather to Brisbane.
Fire, floods, dust and snow — how is this all happening at the same time?
18:11 EDT
There are fires in NSW, a heatwave in south-east Queensland, the dust is still settling on Sydney and Canberra, and it snowed in Tasmania overnight.
Townsville rental prices skyrocket after flooding crisis, families struggle to find homes
17:28 EDT
Some home rentals in Townsville are going for more than double their normal asking price as locals fight it out for rapidly dwindling housing stock.
