I found this new part of the BOM website that may be useful for checking weather conditions quickly in your area. It is called MetEye and seems to gather a lot of information together on one web page. This example is from my local area.
www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/
It's been around for a year or so in Vic. The SA version looks to be in km/hr for wind. The Vic version is in knots.
It's a forecast for 6 km square blocks and if you click any where on the water you get a table of wind speeds forecast for the day for that particular 6 x 6 km block on the map. By far the most useful wind forecast map available and I have found it to be a lot more acccurate than anything else. It's so good it forecasts when the sea breeze arrives at my spots as it progresses up the bay.
The forecast table is for the red spot where I clicked on the map
Rob you are looking at the existing BOM Forecast Explorer - 'Marine view' which you are right has been around for some time. The Land view version of the BOM's Forecast Explorer gives wind speed in km/hr.
What Coastflyer is refering to is a very new interface that BOM have been developing and trialling recently - and it will be launched in the next few weeks. Its called Meteye is is destined to replace Forceast Explorer as I understand it.
Ok, is it a better front end to the wind predictions from the BOM ? - not sure yet, time will tell.
Yes, I use the Marine view Forecast Explorer.
The link is to Forecast Explorer.
Land view will be useful for kiting the inland lakes.
Not keen on MetEye interface so far but wait and see
Lambie, Do you work for BOM?
