Weather

Weather Forecasting information.

The big picture across the Australian region, supplied by Weatherzone (WZ) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM):

• Current MSL Chart: includes 6 hourly interactive MSL chart view over the last 7 days (BOM)

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/synoptic_col.shtml

• 7-day WZ charts: current and forecast charts for the Australian region https://www.weatherzone.com.au/synoptic

• 4-day BOM charts: PDF of forecast charts for 1000 and 2200 local time (BOM)

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDG00073.shtml

• Interactive Charts: interactive 3-hourly forecast charts over the next 3 days(BOM)

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer/index.shtml

• All BOM Forecast Charts: home page for all forecast charts (BOM)

http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/charts/index.shtml

• BOM Satellite Images: home page for all satellite images; visible, IR, static, looped (BOM) http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/satellite/
• BOM Meteye. You input the location or postcode and the forecast and windmap are displayed.  http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/

Other useful sites for information are:

• Elders Weather  https://www.eldersweather.com.au
• Weatherzone      https://www.weatherzone.com.au
• Willyweather     https://www.willyweather.com.au

Soaring forecasting information.

• Windy       https://www.windy.com
• Melbourne and Wagga Wagga radiosonde soundings with estimated convection heights against temperatures.  Website address:  http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos

• SkySight

This is a basic version of a weather service provided by SkySight to Gliding Australia (GA). It is a free service to GA Members. It is provided from within MyGFA in order to ensure that only GA members have access to this free version.    

https://weather.glidingaustralia.org

The full version of Skysight is found here.   https://skysight.io