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  2. Australia's weather radars - Wikipedia

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    The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...

  3. Bureau of Meteorology - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together the state meteorological services that existed before then. [ 3 ]

  4. Severe weather events in Sydney - Wikipedia

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    5 January 1863 is Sydney's first recorded 40 °C (104 °F) day, when the mercury hit 41.6 °C (106.9 °F) at Sydney's Observatory Hill. [11]During January 1896, a state wide heatwave blasted through NSW and caused the mercury in Sydney to hit 40.7 °C (105.3 °F) on the 6th and 42.5 °C (108.5 °F) on the 13th, this ended Sydney's longest streak of days under 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) which lasted ...

  5. Weather radar - Wikipedia

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    Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).

  6. List of Australia tornadoes - Wikipedia

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    Believed to be one of the strongest Australian tornadoes, [38] this tornado left a 21 km (13 mi) long and 11.6 km (0.62–0.99 mi) wide destruction path through the Bulahdelah State Forest. According to reports, it threw a two-ton tractor 100 m (330 ft) through the air, depositing it upside down.

  7. Nowcasting (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    Data extrapolation, including development or dissipation, can be used to find the likely location of a moving weather system. The intensity of rainfall from a particular cloud or group of clouds can be estimated, giving a very good indication as to whether to expect flooding, the swelling of a river etc. Depending on the area of built-up space, drainage and land-use in general, a forecast ...

  8. 2018–19 Australian region cyclone season - Wikipedia

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    Thursday Island in the Torres Strait recorded ten-minute sustained winds of at least 41 kilometres per hour (25 mph) for a period of more than 17 hours while the system moved eastwards across Cape York Peninsula, including sustained winds of up to 65 kilometres per hour (40 mph) and gusts to 91 kilometres per hour (57 mph). [36]

  9. 1992 Queensland storms - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Meteorology radar picked up a series of cells to the north-west of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, and the data suggested that there was a possibility of large hail. The Bureau immediately issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the coastal region between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, 100 km to the north. [2] [8]