Sydney BOM Rain Radar Images

Discontinued due to a better iPhone app I made :-)

Animated GIFs of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology 128 and 256 km Sydney Radar

• 256 km radius, last hour
• 128 km radius, last hour
• 256 km radius, last day
• 128 km radius, last day

The images are downloaded and the animated versions are created every ten minutes, starting at four minutes past the hour.

Please note that the time on the images is UTC, which is 10 hours behind during Australian wintertime and 11 hours behind during Australian summertime.

Ranges

• The 128 kilometer radius goes via the coast from Point Perpendicular, Kiama, Wollongong, Stanwell Park, Sydney Airport, Sydney, Avalon, Terrigal to Norah Head.
• The 256 kilometer radius goes via the coast from Narooma, Batemans Bay, Point Perpendicular, Kiama, Wollongong, Stanwell Park, Sydney Airport, Sydney, Norah Head, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle up to Williamtown.

Acknowledgements

As stated on the BOM website, the following acknowledgements should be given:

MTSAT-1R : Satellite image originally processed by the Bureau of Meteorology from the geostationary satellite MTSAT-1R operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Do it yourself

It's not realy that difficult. Download this script, select the right URLs, install wget and gifsicle and you're on your way!