SEQ Radar

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BOM Brisbane-Mt Stapylton

128 km reflectivity · 5-minute frames

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Reflectivity

BOM 128 km composite · RadarScope colours

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Radar © Bureau of Meteorology · Composite © RainViewer · Steering NOAA GFS via Open-Meteo · Map OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap

Radar frame — Steering flow — Echo tracking —

Radar source

Radar station

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Sites · motion now

Observed is measured from the last two composite frames — where echoes near that site actually moved. Steering is the model 0–6 km mean wind. When they disagree, trust observed.

Layers

Radar colours

Base map

Radar opacity

Loop length

Composite colours

Observed echo motion Model steering flow Range rings 50 · 100 · 128 km Site markers

Arrow length = where the echo will be in 30 min Same scale, from the model wind

What this is. Single-site mode shows the Bureau of Meteorology's own 128 km reflectivity frames for the selected radar, issued every five minutes. Your phone fetches the frames from BOM directly, so they show in BOM's own fifteen rainfall-rate colours (light to extreme, in mm/h); the scale under the map is BOM's. BOM's image is a rainfall composite rather than the raw 0.5° sweep RadarScope draws, so the faint sea and ground clutter you see in RadarScope is not here, while the storms are. Composite mode is RainViewer's national mosaic at ten minutes. Echo tracking is computed here by matching consecutive composite frames; steering is NOAA GFS via Open-Meteo. It is not a warning service. A BOM severe thunderstorm warning overrides anything on this screen. Radar imagery © Bureau of Meteorology; composite © RainViewer; model via Open-Meteo; map OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap contributors. No API keys anywhere.