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arb
05-02-2007, 05:16 PM
I have noticed in some of the US-based forums that some of the forum posters have clear-sky clocks (http://cleardarksky.com/csk/) in their signature. This looks like a great tool, but it appears to be only for the US/Canada unfortunately. Does anyone know of a similar resource for Australian skies? Or does the Bureau of Meteorology publish "cloud cover" forecasts? It'd be real nice to know that when I head out that the skies won't have clouded over by the time I get to my favourite observing spot. (Which happened the other night - crystal clear skies at home, but within half an hour the whole sky was covered in cloud!)
DobDobDob
05-02-2007, 05:25 PM
I don't know about the clocks, but this is a nice site which has a beaut tool after you figure out how to drive it: http://www.theweatherchaser.com/maps/index.html :P
arb
05-02-2007, 05:30 PM
Okay... So how do you drive it? :P
janoskiss
05-02-2007, 05:34 PM
there is a link to 3-day cloud forecast maps on the IIS Weather page under Resources. I've found them to be surprisingly reliable (ie the 12 and 24 hour ones).
DobDobDob
05-02-2007, 05:43 PM
On the bottom right hand side of the page there is a square, grab the inner square with your mouse and drag it to your location on the smaller inset map, and the main map will follow suit :eyepop:
White Rabbit
08-02-2007, 08:37 AM
Firefox has a weather plug in for your browser that has a 3 day forecast and also a pop up radar image. The radar is only for current cloud cover for the whole of Oz.
LX200
08-02-2007, 10:38 AM
G'day Y'all
Yeah its cool changes every half hour with a pop up image :thumbsup:
psadams
09-02-2007, 11:53 AM
Only seems to work for VIC, NSW & Tasmania not for the other states.
erick
09-02-2007, 12:10 PM
Didn't work last night for SE Melbourne. I set up before sunset - absolutely clear skies, as predicted. Went out at 9:30pm - Huh? Almost 90% clouded over! :mad2: It did break up a bit by 10:30, but I never saw Saturn :sadeyes:
janoskiss
09-02-2007, 12:32 PM
That's strange Eric, I looked at the forecast also and it said it was going to be cloudy over Melbourne. Make sure you look at the date and time over the large image. Don't rely on the +12h, 24h, 36h etc times listed on the overview page.
erick
09-02-2007, 02:48 PM
Yes, perhaps I misread. I woke up to clear skies this morning!
matt
09-02-2007, 04:52 PM
So where do you get the plug-in?
erick
09-02-2007, 05:07 PM
I used this one:-

http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/

Go to "installation page".