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Darwin Harbour Rain Radar - 50km

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About the Darwin Harbour Rain Radar

approximately 7 km southeast of Darwin Airport

The Berrimah radar is located on a rise with the dish antenna tower mounted app roximately 50 metres above the surrounding topography. It has a good coverage in all directions up to a range of 250 km with the following two exceptions: (a) some local masking of echoes at low elevations to the east; (b) some signal blockage to the north-northeast due to several HF transmitter towers. Heavy rain over the radar site will cause attenuation of all signals. Path atte nuation also occurs when the radar beam passes through an intense thunderstorm cell; the returned signal from cells further along that path will be reduced. Because the beam width of this particular radar is only 0.9 degrees, it may 'undershoot' high level storms and rain echoes may appear less intense than actual rainfall rate. During the dry season from May to September, when low level atmospheric tempera ture inversions are more prevalent, images may display areas of relatively strong (Level 2 or 3) permanent echoes. These tend to be reflections from coastal features; commonly from Gunn Point and the Cobourg Peninsular northeast of the radar, and from the nearside coastline of the Tiwi Islands to the north. Also during this time of the year, a false image of the Timor coastline may sometimes be seen extending northwest from Bathurst Island. This phenomenon is due to second skip returns at multiples of the radar's maximum range. <a
Warnings
No warnings within 100 km.
State Wide
Temperature
Darwin Harbour
34 °C 23 °C 6am 34 °C 1pm
↑ Warming
Now: 34 °C
Tides
Darwin Harbour
11:48am 1.90m 5:36pm 6.15m
↑ Rising
Current: 2.05m
Weather Now for Darwin Harbour
Sunny.
32 °C
Feels like 32 °C
Humidity
52%
Pressure
1014 hPa
At Darwin Airport
Nearby Wind
50 km radius
N S W E 10 kn Charles Point 8 kn Noonamah 9 kn Gunn Point 6 kn Kangaroo Flats (Defence)
Darwin Harbour
Recent Locations
Darwin Harbour
Calm
Cocata
11 kn E
17°
Ss Yongala
14 kn ESE
33°
Sundown
15 kn SE
26°
Cape Hardy
16 kn E
15°
Emerton
4 kn SSE
18°
Warner
12 kn SE
21°
Sun
6:45am rise 6:43pm set
11 h 58 m of daylight
Now: 12:29pm
41 seconds more than yesterday
Moon
5:57amrise 6:06pmset
1% illuminated
New Moon
Live Weather
Nearby
Darwin Airport, NT
12 kn NE
32°
Charles Point, NT
10 kn NNE
29°
Gunn Point, NT
9 kn NE
31°
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33 kn SE
19°
Most Windless in Australia
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Calm
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13 kn NNE
38°
Coldest in Australia
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5 kn SSE
Wettest in Australia
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6.8 mm