Topic: radar archives

[Antonio (stormboy)]

Michael Bath in my LAST post you wrote EDIT: you can set the hours of the radar using date range. I use this feature but minimum that i can get is 1 day EG 17dec – 18dec = 24hrs. OR 17dec – 17 dec still = 24hrs. Much help would be appreciated if you could screen capture how you edit the time range.

Thankyou stormboy:

[Michael Bath]

Stormboy,

http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-loop

You can either type dates/times directly into the browser location bar and press enter, OR directly into the "Date Range (UTC)" section and click the Change button.

Notes that all times are UTC - add 10 for local NSW time, or add 11 hours when daylight savings starts.

MB

[Michael Thomas]

Hi Michael,

This radar achieve is great. I only found this today. For years I have wanted to see the Canberra radar for the 8/12/2004. How far will the achieve go back?

Thanks,
Michael

[Michael Bath]

Hi Michael - not that far yet. Have a read through this thread for more info.

MB

[Michael Thomas]

Thanks, fingers crossed that it will become available. I will have to look though some of the big storm days of the past.

[Antonio (stormboy)]

Oh great next storm cell ill try this method. thank you.

storm boy.

[Michael Bath]

I've sent all my own radar archives to John Barratt dating back to 1998 and all those should be added over time. Though they only include significant storm days.

[Michael Thomas]

Hi Michael,

I might as well ask, do you have the Canberra radar for the 8/12/2004? If so, can you email it to me? I am really interested in seeing what really happened. That day was my first 'storm chase' and easily the best storm structure I have seen. I also got caught in the core of another storm with hail around 3-4cm (I guess) which put some small dents in the car and chips in the windscreen.

[pingtang]

Hello Michael T

December 8 2004 was also our first ever storm chase,and one of our best.  I remember seeing an awesome wall cloud south of Goulburn and  think pulsing CGs. Some of the hail drifts were huge. Some stones were atleast 6cms.

I remember watching the Sydney radar at 3:30pm that afternoon.Several strong storms were located west of a line from Katoomba to Canberra.  The Goulburn storm was red cored and tracking SSW wards. It wasn't moving that quickly.

I'd love to see radar as well, but I don't think the Canberra radar existed back then. The Sydney 256km radar would do the job though.

[Antonio (stormboy)]

My first storm chase / storm chasing me was when we were in casino in the October area in 2006 I think it was. That was the first storm we experienced here in the northern rivers for when we had that storm chase us we had just moved up from Katoomba in Sydney. We experienced hail but I did not even know about this forum back then.

stormboy

[Steven]

Obviously I didn't need to request MB for radar archives then. But this is great because they can be uploaded to the site and we can all harvest them for our own purposes.

[Antonio (stormboy)]

i would like to know if the radar loops are saveable that would be great

[Michael Bath]

I don't have any radar for that area on the 8/12/2004 - just some long range ones from Moree . That was a big day for storms - see here:

http://australiasevereweather.com/storm_news/2004/docs/200412-04.htm

[Antonio (stormboy)]

Now I’m just guessing at it being a technical issue but the port headland and sometimes Darwin radar’s show blodges of colours on the radar and my grand dad lives there and he said it is a clear day. So is it from issues or is it very humid?

stormboy

[Michael Bath]

Stormboy - check the BoM's radar info pages as it often explains false echos from the various radars

WA:  http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/info/WA.info.shtml