Changing default radar feed
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Is there a way to change which radar feed is the default under 'Radar & Satellite>weather radar'?
There are a couple of stations around Adelaide, South Australia (Sellicks and Buckland) however, Sellicks has some major blind spots.
I would like to use Buckland as the primary.
Sellicks
Buckland
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Hi @Eugowra we use data from third-party provider and there is no option to switch them at the moment in Windy app.
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@Eugowra Our feed from BoM should contain data from both Buckland and Sellicks sites. There might have been an outage in the feed for Buckland and the time you mention. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm as we don't have the data anymore
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@Filip_K Thanks Filip,
You are correct BoM will feed from Sellicks if Buckland is offline for maintenance etc., but BoM will advise if Buckland is down and that there may be incomplete coverage from Sellicks.
I confirmed that both were up and operating at the time as Buckland had 360 degree rain surrounding it (and Adelaide) and Sellicks had its usual 'wedges' missing.
I should have screenshot them at the time.
Thanks to you both for the reply, this is my home radar so quite important. I'll keep an eye on it as we move into Winter and see let you know how it goes. -
@Eugowra Great, thank you. We're unfortunately completely dependent on our feed from BoM which comes as composite for whole Australia and there's not much we can do if BoM doesn't put one (or more) of their radars in the composite.
If something similar happens in the future and we still have the source data, I can check them to be sure. -
@Filip_K
Hi just some attached screenshots from my phone.
Shows Buckland Park up and running but data in Windy coming from Sellicks.Cheers
Chris
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@Eugowra Thank you for letting us know. I can confirm that we're getting the Sellicks data overlayed on top of Buckland Park in the composite image directly from BoM and there is unfortunately not much we can do about this issue.
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@Filip_K bummer...
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The basics of radar is that a beam of energy called radio waves is emitted from an antenna. When the waves hit objects in the atmosphere, the energy is scattered in all directions, with some of the energy being reflected directly back to the radar.
Regards
