The Weather Station

Extremes

Dates in red have the day’s timelapse — tap to watch it.

From behind the beach, every ten minutes

The near-live sequence rebuilds every ten minutes; the day’s timelapse every twenty. Both refresh in place as new footage lands.

Whole days, archived

Each night the previous day’s full timelapse lands here — the last two days rolling, storm days kept for a season, record days kept for good. Every thumbnail is that morning’s sunrise.

The sky’s best work

Day and week, as they happened

Drag the window to travel through time — pull its ends to widen or tighten the view.

Bass Strait, forecast

Elsewhere on the island

Bureau of Meteorology long-term statistics for the island's more opinionated corners.

• Low Head — the lighthouse opposite Greens Beach.
• Low Rocky Point — latest observations from the remote south-west coast.
• Mount Read — 1,120 m on the west coast; ~3.7 m of rain a year.
• Cape Sorell — the Roaring Forties' first landfall.
• Maatsuyker Island — the last lighthouse before Antarctica.
• Butlers Gorge — Central Plateau cold-air country.
• Scotts Peak Dam — Lake Pedder's south-west rain gauge.
• Swan Island — off the north-east tip; Banks Strait weather.
• Davey Gorge — the Davey River's cut through the range above Port Davey; tannin water, quartzite walls, and a gauge on stilts.
• Woolnorth — the north-west corner, where the Roaring Forties come ashore past Cape Grim.

Live readings from the Bureau of Meteorology, refreshed every twenty minutes: current, today's range, wind, and rain since 9 am.