queensland BOM lost the plot?

[GregOug]

Hi all,

Has anyone else noticed that the main Moreton Bay forecast has gone crazy? I checked it last night and it was showing less than 0.5m seas for all days even though the winds were as high as 25 knots. Thinking it would be fixed this morning I checked again but still wrong. That is downright dangerous for an novice boaties out there.

 

[ellicat]

Crazy. Maybe they're measuring the waves in Manly Harbour..

[Angry51]

Yeah Greg, Up here we double check even the temp forecast.

That forecast rubbish last year about all the wet weather we 

were going to get was just a joke. It all rained except where they said

it would. 

[Kat]

Hey Greg.  Why don't you use their "feedback" form?

http://www.bom.gov.au/other/feedback/

 

[GregOug]

1 hour ago, Kat said:

Hey Greg.  Why don't you use their "feedback" form?

http://www.bom.gov.au/other/feedback/

 

I’ve rang them and the young guy said he would let them know straight away. But it hasn’t changed an hour and a half later!

[Gad]

BOM has updated their M/Bay sea/wave heights in the early arvo update

 

[GregOug]

Yes. Much more like it.

[Kat]

3 hours ago, GregOug said:

Yes. Much more like it.

People Power!  Ha ha. What the Dickens was going on there I wonder.  Heading out in the weekend then Greg?  Lol

[snap1946]

try windy

https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,-27.981,153.554,12

[GregN70]

On 22/04/2022 at 7:17 PM, snap1946 said:

try windy

https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,-27.981,153.554,12

Windy can be quite useful. However it is solely drive by deterministic model outputs with no forecasting adjustments/skil made by forecasters locally, the models used in Windy are, ECMWF (European), ICON (Korean), GFS (USA) and ACCESS (BOM), the exact same models as used by the BOM for their official forecasts,  also the free version of Windy is only updated 12 hourly (unless its changed recently), rather than 6 hourly when the model runs are conducted, which means it can be a bit out of date by the time a new run is about to be uploaded. Check Times and Runs.