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http://www.bom.gov.au/weather-services/announcements/marine/checktheweather.shtml

As per our discussion earlier, it is seriously amiss that the BOM does not post the actual warnings on their bay forecast...

www.bom.gov.au/vic/forecasts/portphillip.shtml

The first line contains a link to current warnings rather than the text of the warnings.

Posting a link to current warnings is EASY for the guy who has to maintain just one page of warnings but it makes the warnings one click further away.

It didn't used to be like this. It used to have the warnings at the top of the forecast.

They should go back to how it used to be. It seems silly to run a campaign to make people aware of the warnings when, in the last year, you've changed it and put the warnings on different page to the forecast....

I spoke to the person in charge of marine forecasts at the Bureau today, after sending him this thread earlier, and he wanted me to pass along that in 2012 there WILL be a change to the forecasts, with the forecast and the warnings being rolled into one product.
See: http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/about/wind-warning-changes.shtml

One of the issues at present is that marine warnings are issued on a rolling 24 hour basis, whereas forecasts are for that day. Hence the forecast may be fine for today, while a warning appears to suggest it could get nasty (when in fact, say, a big front is coming through tomorrow). Things will shift so both forecasts and warnings are issued for "today" and "tomorrow", and will appear as part of the one product so its unambiguous what will occur over the period of interest.

So, rest assured, feedback is listened to and actions taken accordingly.

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windjunky said...

I spoke to the person in charge of marine forecasts at the Bureau today, after sending him this thread earlier, and he wanted me to pass along that in 2012 there WILL be a change to the forecasts, with the forecast and the warnings being rolled into one product.
See: http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/about/wind-warning-changes.shtml

One of the issues at present is that marine warnings are issued on a rolling 24 hour basis, whereas forecasts are for that day. Hence the forecast may be fine for today, while a warning appears to suggest it could get nasty (when in fact, say, a big front is coming through tomorrow). Things will shift so both forecasts and warnings are issued for "today" and "tomorrow", and will appear as part of the one product so its unambiguous what will occur over the period of interest.

So, rest assured, feedback is listened to and actions taken accordingly.

Sounds good - the BOM are nice people.

Don't they get all their data from the guys at WeatherZone though? ;-)

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ginger pom said...
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Sounds good - the BOM are nice people.

Don't they get all their data from the guys at WeatherZone though? ;-)

Them's fightin' words...
;-)

As I understand it, the murdoch press do all the science (especially the climate science) and you guys just rebrand it and make out you did it yourself...