i think BOM is providing dumbed-down interface for unsophisticated consumers. they have (expensive) products for commercial consumers. this begs the question: where are the data feeds for the middle ground e.g. citizen scientists like us? i suspect BOM’s disregard of amateur weather statios (unlike UK WOW) relates to their commercial focus (guaranteed, high quality data streams) ⊣GE⊢
> On 4 Feb 2026, at 1:33 pm, Greg from Oz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/558e394e-4b41-4342-aad0-da76e4c84f6fn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/558e394e-4b41-4342-aad0-da76e4c84f6fn%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/E8667DE2-DEB6-4AD5-A6B0-28197662ECB3%40geddy.au.
