The federal environment minister has called the weather bureau in for an urgent meeting to explain how it will fix its new website, which launched just days before wild storms hit south-east Queensland.

Queensland senator Murray Watt, whose portfolio includes the Bureau of Meteorology, said the new website had not met users’ expectations, and encouraged Australians to share their feedback with the agency.

In a statement on Tuesday evening, he said he had met with acting chief executive, Peter Stone, and told the bureau to “consider this feedback and, where appropriate, adjust the website’s settings as soon as possible”, including urgent consideration to improving functionality and usability.

Watt’s intervention came after Queensland Premier David Crisafulli spoke in state parliament, bl

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