BoM announced recently that their Canberra(Captains Flat) radar was offline –
Quote[This radar is undergoing routine maintenance and will be offline from
15/05/2023 to 24/05/2023 – Reason: Technical or equipment problems Date: 15/05/2023
Start time: 7:30 am EST Duration: 226 hour(s) Estimated time of restoration of service: 24/5/2023 5:30 pm EST]
Now the Canberra(Captains Flat) radar is back on duty but I see huge errors for the 24hrs to 9am 26May.
My twin screensaves comparing – BoM radar estimated rain vs BoM and NSW Gov rain gauge rain show the main belt of “dogsballs errors” around Jerangle. www.warwickhughes.com/agri16/Jerangle-radar-rain-errors26may23.jpg
On the rain gauge map I have marked with 2 red X’s the stations with Jerangle in the name – not the slightest sign of rain in gauges anywhere near 25mm
Mmmm I live just near there and it certainly didnt rain anything like 50mm yesterday.
Here are a few other online weather stations around there. all three show less but not zero.
Tinderry
ozforecast.com.au/cgi-bin/weatherstation.cgi?station=7570968
Burra
ozforecast.com.au/cgi-bin/weatherstation.cgi?station=7570002
Jerrangle
ozforecast.com.au/cgi-bin/weatherstation.cgi?station=7570931
Not sure of your point Siliggy – the BoM map of colour-coded rain dots for the 24 hrs ended 9am 26May23 – for the region Canberra-Cooma-Jerangle has no dark blue dots.
So the “radar indicated rain” is hugely in error over that large NW trending belt from Mt Ginini to Jerangle. Is there any politician who could be energized to question BoM at Senate estimates about this? You and I know the possible candidates and that for the BoM Senate estimates is mostly a GreenLeft love fest.
“Not sure of your point Siliggy”?
That could be because i did not bring one. All i have to offer is that data.