John Barratt

Category 2 Cyclone Fina bubbling away in this 'target area' timelapse. This provides an image every 2.5 minutes instead of every 10 minutes, giving a mesmerising look at Fina. See the latest live satellite and radar imagery on The Weather Chaser theweatherchaser.com/tropical/cyc...

Graph showing weather observations at Melbourne Olympic Park AWS

Turns out air temperature maximums & minimums are recorded 9am to 9am local time, so it's even cooler, was 11.8 at 9am! :) theweatherchaser.com/observations...

In case you missed it. You can display different types of observations on our SD radar map. Tempearture, rainfall for the shown interval, rainfall since 9am local, and wind.

Find your closest radar here :

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Impressive system stretching right down the east coast at the moment with cold and showery conditions in the south. See the latest at theweatherchaser.com/map

Finally the graph that shows the fallacy of the ‘it’s all happened before’ argument. #ithasnt

Just in case you were not sure how off the previous scale Australia’s ocean temperatures were in the last Financial Year (July 2024 - June 2025) I plotted it using the previous FY graph

www.bom.gov.au/climate/curr...

#TCAlfred is still hanging off the coast, further delaying landfall. Last 72 hours below, full HD timelapse since formation here : theweatherchaser.com/video/202503...

#TCAlfred is close enough to the coast to see it on the radar. A tracking timelapse of the satellite (Visible+IR) and radar mosaic from the last 24 hours up to 3:30pm Brisbane time.

Indeed, actually the only one I'm currently using : bsky.app/profile/uspo...

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Table of 1 minute interval dewpoint observations from Melbourne BoM AWS

The 1 minute obs reported as high as 22.4C at 2:58pm today for Melbourne Olympic Park. They seemed to be bouncing around a bit, but a number of recordings of 22C and over :

My preferred dev stack is minimalism.

Modern web standards, a small handful of decades old unix tools, a text editor, and first principles get me surprisingly far.

Less layers, less to break, less to reason with.

Defer adding libraries/tools until encountering real world problems.

Ahh, just saw your repost of David's post. Seems the record was equalled a few times a few days ago as well. Peaked at 21.3 at 9am this morning, so well broken. Imagine the extended run of high dew point (over 4 days above 16.8) would be up there a as well.

Observation graph showing temperature, humidity and dew point for Melbourne BoM AWS for the last week from https://theweatherchaser.com/observations/aws/melbourne-olympic-park?m=10080

Is the record this extra long run of high dew point? :

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Use your products.

What a chart.
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I grew up in a patch of subtropical rainforest/wet sclerophyll forest north of Sydney.🌳 We've been running a camera trap for 10+ years, and occasionally something amazing turns up!

Tiger Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - pretty incredible that native marsupial predators still stalk the forest! #WildOz

Townsville Radar - 256km Rain Rate Townsville current and historical weather radar from the BoM Rain Rate - IDR1062

The BoM upgraded the Townsville Radar last week. It's now a dual polarisation radar with an extra tilt and higher resolution data. It's been quiet in the area since deployment but will no doubt see some significant activity in the months ahead.

theweatherchaser.com/radar/IDR106...

We use 30 year averages to show climatology (average weather conditions). During the 20th century the UK climatology followed a path around a confined box. With #globalwarming and #climatechange they have escaped out the box. This #dataviz shows UK rainfall and temperature.

Screenshot of the area covered by the new BoM weather radar at Karratha

The BoM has just commisioned a new weather radar at Karatha in WA that will take over duties from the nearby Dampier radar. Not much activity in those parts as yet, and no history, but undoubtedly will be plenty in the coming months. theweatherchaser.com/radar/IDR111...

Deep water.
My @smh cartoon.

As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida, please enjoy once more perhaps the greatest response to climate denial in social media history, from @hbomberguy.bsky.social

Heavy band of rain crossed #Melbourne in the small hours last night accompanied by the strongest winds. Cold wintry showers following this morning. See the HD sequence here: theweatherchaser.com/radar/eh/mel...

The severe hailstorm with 'golf ball' size #hail reports, that impacted NW of Bendigo on Sunday impacted a long swath of land over a period of about 30 minutes. Single frame from the HD #Radar flow view of the event, purple showing likely severe hail: #melbourneweather #melbweather

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

The Libs are doing with Nuclear Power what they did with the NBN, instead of the most cost effective and better end use for everyone of renewables, they are taking the most expensive option which won't be ready for 2 decades (if at all) and is mired in last century thinking.

Antisemitism was rising online. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it. Antisemitism has long festered on the internet, but the Israel-Gaza war and the loosening of content moderation on X have propelled it to unprecedented levels.

“If you wouldn’t join Gab, or Parler, or Truth Social, there’s no reason you should be on X. I think it’s time for journalists and publishers, in particular, to acknowledge the new reality and to get the heck off that website.” - @caseynewton.bsky.social to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Hard to believe it's been over 50 years and NASA are still turning to Nazis for help with rockets. Some traditions die hard

Map from VicEmergency showing a storm/wind weather warning, flood advice messages and Fire Emergency Warnings all at the same time.

Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day

I hate this headline, because it dishonestly portrays the subject as having changed, when what really happened was reporters & editors went along with a heroic self-mythology rather than performing scrutiny and now realize what a mistake that was, w/o owning up to it.

See: Giuliani, Rudy.