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Alice Springs Airport

The Alice Springs radar has a very good view to the south of the airport. The coverage is from 260 degrees (True) through the south to 075 degrees (True) - this area includes: Tempe Downs, Angus Downs, Kulgera, Finke and the western edge of the Simpson Desert. The effectiveness of the radar is reduced markedly to the north by the MacDonnell Ranges which lie between the Airport and Alice Springs Central Business District. In the north, the area of good coverage lies from Mt. Hay in the west to Mt. Yambah in the north to Harts Range in the northeast. Due to the relative high cloud base normally associated with shower, storm and rain events, intensities in the low ranges must be considered suspect. In normal circumstances, there is a large amount of dry air beneath the clouds and this causes a certain amount of evaporation of the precipitation. In the 0.0 to 0.2 mm range, most of the precipitation does not reach the ground (virga); in the 0.2 to 2.0 mm range the actual rainfall is generally closer to 1.0 mm mark, however, in the higher ranges, rainfall rates are usually fairly accurate. Being a C-Band radar, if there are large thunderstorms around, the radar may not be able to detect accurately the strength of other storms located behind the closest storms. This may also lead to the underestimation of the strength, at times, of very intense isolated storms. Heavy rain over the radar itself will reduce the reliability of the radar in all directions. <a
Warnings
No warnings within 100 km.
State Wide
Temperature
Alice Springs Airport
29 °C 13 °C 3am 32 °C 3pm
↑ Warming
Now: 29 °C
Weather Now for Alice Springs Airport
Mostly sunny.
29 °C
Feels like 23 °C
Wind
14 kn NW
Humidity
22%
Pressure
1020 hPa
At Alice Springs Airport
Nearby Wind
50 km radius
Wind Observations Offline
Recent Locations
Alice Springs Airport
14 kn NW
29°
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8 kn NNW
18°
Chandlers Creek
2 kn S
17°
Narre Warren -
Officer South
7 kn WNW
13°
Aberglasslyn
15 kn NW
25°
Christmas Island Aero
16 kn E
25°
Sun
6:45am rise 6:24pm set
11 h 39 m of daylight
Now: 11:22am
77 seconds more than yesterday
Moon
11:19pmrise 9:35amset
75% illuminated
Waning Gibbous
Live Weather
Nearby
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14 kn NW
29°
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Calm
17°
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33°
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Wettest in Australia
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2.8 mm