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Presented from Issue 107, December 2013
The Bureau of Meteorology has updated the way it displays tide information on its web pages. Mariners can now access a map of Australia and zoom in on their area of interest to view the stations available. The navigation of this map is similar to google maps. See http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/tides/

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 10 July 2017

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Read more: Tides - Cause and Effect - Bureau of Meteorology

Presented from Issue 100
Weather - It’s the determining factor for most anglers in working out where to fish on a given day. “Too bright for here” ,”They won’t be tailing in this wind”, “It’s Easterly today so it’s going to be tough” these saying are all too familiar and they do have implications if we want success at catching a trout.

Picking the right weather can make or break an outing, a good decision can produce a red letter day while a bad decision can make chasing a trout hard work. So often I’ve spoken to visiting anglers who have struggled to catch fish without the all important local knowledge, they made decisions to visit waters which don’t fire in the wrong weather.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 03 April 2017

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Read more: The Weather Factor - Joe Riley

ABC Article

This ABC News article describing the recent marine "heatwave" may be of interest to TasFish Readers.

Written by Stephen Smith - Rubicon Web and Technology Training

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 20 April 2016

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MetEye – Bureau stakeholder user trial – we need you!

Later this year the Bureau of Meteorology will release its new forecast viewer, called Meteye. But before we do we’d appreciate it if you and your friends or colleagues would trial it and give us your feedback.

Simply go to: http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/meteye/ and enter

Username = meteye

Password = experimental

Your feedback will help us finalise the webpages for general release in the coming months.

View the PDF here

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 18 April 2013

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Read more: Meteye

Bureau of Meteorology

Dear Tasmanian Mariner - in the recent newsletter I indicated that brochures on the new forecast system would be available soon. You can now access these brochures and information on the new system at
http://www.bom.gov.au/NexGenFWS/index.shtml
Regards - Mal

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 03 June 2011

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Weather Website

A new web site for weather forecasts is  available.

Here is the address :  yo.no This will show the weather for Miena.

It provides a 3 day forecast and observations.

Use of the Tabs will give longer forecasts maps and statistics.

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 07 January 2011

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Better weather forecasting

I had the great opportunity to listen to a talk by a weather forecaster last week. My mate in Melbourne calls them weather guessers, and of course the forecasters always cop a serve when weather isn't as predicted. But as explained though Tasmania is one of the harder places to predict. Hill, mountains, inlets and geographical forms can turn a predicted prevailing northerly breeze on top of a hill into a variable or light southerly at the base.

Category: Meteorology and Weather

Published: 31 October 2008

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Read more: Better weather forecasting