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Vesteys Beach Rain Radar - 200km

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About the Vesteys Beach 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
Vesteys Beach
27 °C 34 °C 1pm 23 °C 6am
↓ Cooling
Now: 27 °C
Tides
Vesteys Beach
11:59pm 1.13m 6:09am 6.81m
↑ Rising
Current: 1.24m
Weather Now for Vesteys Beach
Sunny.
26 °C
Feels like 30 °C
Humidity
83%
Pressure
1016 hPa
At Darwin Airport
Nearby Wind
50 km radius
N S W E 4 kn Charles Point 2 kn Gunn Point Calm Noonamah Calm Kangaroo Flats (Defence)
Vesteys Beach
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Sun
6:44am rise 6:43pm set
11 h 58 m of daylight
Now: 12:31am
40 seconds more than yesterday
Moon
6:39amrise 6:58pmset
0% illuminated
New Moon
Live Weather
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