http://satview.bom.gov.au

Just discovered this. You can zoom in, show roads and towns etc. It works both night and day.

What i find surprising is those places that seem to generate their own weather in the sense that clouds stay there rather than moving around with the rest of the weather systems. This morning, those places have included Lake Torrens, Balgo Hills and Strathgordon.

The other surprising thing is those places that experience a sudden burst of heavy cloud that dissipates over the next hour or so. This happened at 4 am north of Bicheno in Tasmania.

mollwollfumble said:

http://satview.bom.gov.au

Just discovered this. You can zoom in, show roads and towns etc. It works both night and day.

What i find surprising is those places that seem to generate their own weather in the sense that clouds stay there rather than moving around with the rest of the weather systems. This morning, those places have included Lake Torrens, Balgo Hills and Strathgordon.

The other surprising thing is those places that experience a sudden burst of heavy cloud that dissipates over the next hour or so. This happened at 4 am north of Bicheno in Tasmania.

Oh, it doesn’t zoom in to Google Earth scale.

I suppose that was expecting a bit much :)

Very interesting, nonetheless.

thanks, I have bookmarked the site to have a good play at later.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

http://satview.bom.gov.au

Just discovered this. You can zoom in, show roads and towns etc. It works both night and day.

What i find surprising is those places that seem to generate their own weather in the sense that clouds stay there rather than moving around with the rest of the weather systems. This morning, those places have included Lake Torrens, Balgo Hills and Strathgordon.

The other surprising thing is those places that experience a sudden burst of heavy cloud that dissipates over the next hour or so. This happened at 4 am north of Bicheno in Tasmania.

Oh, it doesn’t zoom in to Google Earth scale.

I suppose that was expecting a bit much :)

Very interesting, nonetheless.

Does it zoom in as much as the rain radar?

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

http://satview.bom.gov.au

Just discovered this. You can zoom in, show roads and towns etc. It works both night and day.

What i find surprising is those places that seem to generate their own weather in the sense that clouds stay there rather than moving around with the rest of the weather systems. This morning, those places have included Lake Torrens, Balgo Hills and Strathgordon.

The other surprising thing is those places that experience a sudden burst of heavy cloud that dissipates over the next hour or so. This happened at 4 am north of Bicheno in Tasmania.

Oh, it doesn’t zoom in to Google Earth scale.

I suppose that was expecting a bit much :)

Very interesting, nonetheless.

Does it zoom in as much as the rain radar?

Nowhere near. Max zoom I get seems similar to the radar 512 km view; max radar zoom is 64 km.

Yeah I think MV linked to this a while back, it’s very useful.

Peak Warming Man said:

Yeah I think MV linked to this a while back, it’s very useful.

Yeah I did, and yes it is useful.

:)

Cloud is building up in Campbelltown and Cronulla.

I find I can zoom in very much more on Android tablet than I can on Windows. Zooming using the two finger zoom allows me to zoom right in.

Upper and lower level clouds can move almost independently.

Balgo Hill is still generating its own cloud.

A lovely burst of cloud west of Lismore, 5:30 pm, moving off the coast at 8:30 pm.

Clouds forming over the ocean east of Foster.

I love the way you can tell how much water is in each salt lake from the temperature (water is cold during the day and hot at night). Lake Eyre generating some clouds on its own.

Some landforms (eg. SW Qld) are cold both day and night. Not quite sure why.