Old (left) versus new. Gone are the radar reflections from the Lake George wind turbines, and the ability to scale in to 64 km, or out to 256 km. Photos: BoM.

As a self-confessed weather nerd who constantly monitors the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BoM) rain radar when storms, hail, southerly busters, or other weather events loom, I – like many others – was perplexed to see major changes made to the BoM’s website last week.

Gone are my shortcuts to the Sydney and Canberra radars I had loaded on my phone and desktop, and in their place is a new cover page and options for ‘Weather Map’, More maps’, and ‘More radars’, and then search options for the area I wanted. And when I finally found the radar image, it had nowhere near the fidelity nor functionality of the old radar maps.

Since the chang

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