New Bureau of Meteorology website

[John Smith]

For the other Australians out there that haven't noticed the new BoM website changes keep coming to light, including that they now show rain from midnight now, no longer 9am which has been in place for decades.

After seeing this I asked why and the response I got back was slightly more interesting than simply making the programming easier, the reply stated it was to align with forecasts, but didn't mention what that change will mean for the remaining manual stations that are usually read at 9am and 3pm.

Anyway, I thought others might like to know, if they didn't know already.

[Cameron D]

Thanks for that heads-up.

I notice the phone app still shows "rain since 9am" under the "current weather" section.

[John Smith]

A little birdy told me that the old site was quietly shifted to a sub-domain and it still shows rain since 9am...

https://reg.bom.gov.au

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[John Smith]

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.

[Cameron D]

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

[John Smith]

It's just the public/main website as best I can tell, historical data files still seem to be 9-9...

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