Seems like the BOM is being run by people who nothing about the weather and the consequences of their decisions.
On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 at 09:40:50 UTC+11 John Smith wrote: > More poor decisions that BoM made when they had the new website coded, > apart from rain being reported on the easy to access location pages as > midnight to midnight and only hourly now even though there is at least half > hourly records making rain rates misleading as well. > > For example in early January on the old site the rain rate over the 30min > period was at least 40.4mm/hr but because of the decision to report hourly > on the new site the rain rate using that was only 22.2mm/hr because it all > fell within 30 minutes. This can really matter during extreme rain fall > events to predict if there will be flooding before river gauges start > showing rising water levels. > > Now I've been informed that minimum "overnight" temperatures are taken > from 6 pm to 9 am so during summer the world seems like it's on fire > because at 7pm in the evening it can be still over 35C in many locations > such as yesterday which is totally misleading and confusing IMHO. > > Maximum temperatures are 6am to 9pm which may seem sane but again can be > misleading if it was warmer at midnight and a cool change has gone through. > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 20:41, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's just the public/main website as best I can tell, historical data >> files still seem to be 9-9... >> >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 14:30, 'Cameron D' via weewx-user < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have been downloading the station observation files since about 2011, >>> and there have been no changes since 2023. >>> Rain_trace is still cumulative, starting at 9:00 >>> >>> On Wednesday, 7 January 2026 at 4:28:10 pm UTC+10 John Smith wrote: >>> >>>> I've come across some more "interesting" design choices by the BoM for >>>> their new website. >>>> >>>> Firstly rain observations are now grouped by hour, rather than showing >>>> individual readings, which in most cases was every half hour. >>>> >>>> The new website no longer shows a running total for rain either, so you >>>> need to manually add up the hourly totals or check the high/low section >>>> for >>>> daily total (midnight to midnight of course)l. >>>> >>>> I was told in no uncertain terms that this is intentional and they >>>> won't be reverting to how the old site worked. >>>> >>>> Luckily for now the old site still functions the same as it did prior >>>> to the new site going live. >>>> >>>> Weatherzone seems to still operate in the same manner as well, so some >>>> choices for now. >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e6122b29-7f99-4859-b798-2833609e6c2bn%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e6122b29-7f99-4859-b798-2833609e6c2bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/558e394e-4b41-4342-aad0-da76e4c84f6fn%40googlegroups.com.
