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What I don't like about the old radar site is that I don't seem to be able to make it full screen on my phone. Moving from one radar station to another is very clunky. The old radar site is not displayed with general weather information. When viewed on a phone, you need to select, for example, 64 km and then drag the image bigger in order to get any useful information. These are screenshots of how the old and new radars open on my phone (no tweaking of either of them). I know which one I think is best. I can make the older radar larger but I have to use two fingers on the screen to drag it larger.

It is thought that at least some of these boats were fishing boats. GON if some of these people were not drug smugglers, and the ones that were were almost certainly not headed for the USA (range of these boats not sufficient to reach the USA) do you care if innocents have been blown to pieces? Undoubtedly, not all of these people blown to pieces were not drug dealers. Two people survived an attack on what was thought to be a fishing boat. These two were not arrested or tried but sent back to their home country. It could have been a little embarrassing if they were questioned in court. Something navies are good at is stopping and boarding boats. Why not board and search these vessels and arrest and interrogate to gain intelligence about drug networks? I suspect part of the reason is to appease Trump's moron followers. Civilised countries do not carry out extrajudicial executions. Certainly, the military is not comfortable with blowing people out of the water who may or may not be drug smugglers. Top admiral steps down abruptly amid drug boat strikes On top of that, the US is building up its military off the coast of Venezuela U.S. deploys aircraft carrier to waters off South America in major military escalation Nation Oct 24, 2025 3:34 PM EDT As well as that, Trump claims that there are CIA agents operating in Venezuela, so much for that Nobel Peace Prize

The map loops automatically. Instead of buttons, you can play or pause or drag the progress bar. Instead of the 64km, 128km, etc buttons, you have the ability to zoom smoothly between the minimum and maximum zoom. Instead of clicking the arrows to move to the next radar station, you can just drag the map all the way across the country if you wish. This dragging seems less clunky than clicking to move from one radar station to another. The drag and zoom is more like Google Earth or Google Maps. To me, at least, this is much more usual. I guess it's down to personal preference. Having followed this on Reddit and other places, there does seem to be a lot of hysteria. It is clear a proportion of people bagging haven't really used it for more than a couple of minutes Here is a screen capture of me briefly using both radars (a bit too compressed in order to upload). Moving around the map is just smoother than the clunk clunk of click buttons. w1 (1) (1) (1).mp4

For those who prefer a map. I am not a huge fan of the colour coding; however, you can click on any place name and get the information in text form

It is definitely available. Temp at the moment is 17.3 In my location, the current wind is 7 knots wsw, currently climbing to 9 knots at 1PM (and predicted hourly) Humidity 49% predicted hourly, looks like it will get more humid tonight 84% at 11PM https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/o2577556437-north-geelong#today

Do you mean the current wind at a given location?

What information is missing? On my page I can see: The current temp and a prediction of a possible shower Hourly forecast Chance of rain hourly wind speed current and hourly wind gusts current and hourly humidity, current and hourly Dew point current and hourly UV index current and hourly Cloud cover current and hourly Mixing height, current and hourly forest fire index

Yep, unless this is a red herring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Operations_Center

Scroll to the bottom and you should see the radar map. Click on the cross to zoom in. Drag the map around if you want to see elsewhere in Aus. https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/bvic_pt042-melbourne Here is a link to the old radar site https://reg.bom.gov.au/australia/radar/

Aren't you looking at neighbouring radar sites on the new page? Except that you are zooming and dragging, you can still see what is happening next door. Zoom out to see the neighbouring area, zoom out more to see the region, zoom out more to see the state, zoom out more to see all of Australia. Drag the map across to look at anywhere in Australia.

I like the fact that you can tailor your page to a bare minimum if you like the temp, wind and rain, or you can have things like hourly predicted cloud cover and mixing layer height if you want. I have spent about 3 hours now playing around with it, and the more I use it, the more sense it makes. There are some items not on it yet that are still available on the old site. These items will be added. My understanding is that there is nothing from the old site that isn't on the new site or will be added to the new site.

You can tailor what information is displayed for you. My page requires scrolling because I have selected "show all" You can cut it down to "temperature and rain" "wind", or "humidity,UV and cloud". I have mine set to all.

I think it gives you an estimation based on the current rain detected. I am guessing it is saying that this rain shower moving from the west towards Geelong is expected to travel at this speed and take a particular path. He is a 60-minute rain prediction based on the current rainfall intensity and current track. This is a very short prediction. I have no idea how accurate its predictions are.

Yes, although BMW dropped this extender motor from the 2019 model as batteries got bigger and cheaper.

My understanding is that the radar can only detect rain, not clouds. I have the old and new radar maps up at the moment; they appear to be showing the same information. The new radar does not appear to allow changing the speed; however, you can go frame by frame with the play-pause button. I do like the way you can change the radar from rain rate to rain reflectivity to estimated rain in the next 60 minutes. I could be wrong but I don't think these are available on the old radar site. I do like the fact that you can zoom out to see the whole country. With the old radar, if I was travelling to Adelaide, I would look at the radar here in Melbourne, and then I would have to select off the weather map the Adelaide radar. Now I can just zoom out and see the radar along my route or the whole country I suspect that the biggest issue is finding our way around a site we have become used to. It has only been out a short time, and some of the criticisms I have read in news articles are not correct as in you can't get a particular feature anymore when actually you can. It is early days, and it does take time for people to adapt

Isn't the radar at the bottom of the page if you scroll down? You can click on rain (to get radar) or wind or waves

My son owned one of these as his first EV. It was a lot of fun to drive. During the time we drove it, I don't think the range-extending motor kicked in at all. A pleasant car to drive with a few interesting quirks. My son even took it to a track day

I am going to be the odd one out. I quite like it. This is the page I have set it to land on, and it appears to have everything I need to know on one page. https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/victoria/central/o2577556437-north-geelong#today

If Australia were able to legislate to ensure that all super investments could only be invested within Australia, and every other country did the same for their country would it be a net gain or loss for Australia? Super funds from the US or Europe, etc., invest their members' wealth in other countries, including Australia. If every country only invested only in their own country, would Australia be better or worse off? I don't know the answer to this question, but I suspect perhaps worse off

Just two further points that just occurred to me. For the investor, spreading money between this country and overseas spreads the risk. If all your money is invested in Australia and the Australian economy goes bad you have all of your eggs in one basket. Whilst we invest money in foreign economies, surely foreign economies invest money in our economy.

I think it was 2005 when you could choose your own super, and not have your employer choose for you. I think people may have gotten into the habit of not thinking about their super.

Yes, I get that, and that is why I chose super that invest in Australia. I am thinking, though that whether investing overseas is good or bad must not be a clear-cut thing. I bought a bunch of Tesla shares when they were dirt cheap and when I sold them, they were worth 8 times the original investment. To my mind (and I am happy to be corrected), on the downside, the money I used to buy the shares was taken out of circulation in Australia. On the upside, that money is now back in the Australian economy, some of it in term deposits and some being spent here in Australia. OME, I am mostly in agreement with your point, I am just saying it is not black and white. The other issue is, and I can only speak of my super fund, you can choose to invest in only Australian shares or international shares or you can choose a mix of those shares by percentage.

If your money is invested overseas, doesn't the money you invest plus interest end up back in Australia when you take your money?

We drove out of our place on the way for a day trip. At the first traffic light, the car behind me beeped. I assume I had raced off quickly enough when the light turned green. After we passed through the intersection, he was still beeping and flashing his lights. I angrily pulled over and threw my door open, ready to confront this person. I slammed my door closed, and as I aggressively strode towards him, he pointed to my car. There was my beloved and expensive SLR camera on the roof of the car. The only reason it had not fallen off was that the neck strap was caught in the door. The man came up and I apologised for the angry gesticulations, and we had a bit of a laugh about it.