So let’s dive in. Take a look and see what’s changed.
From the home page of the bureau website, you can see the rain radar by selecting rain radar and weather maps on the top right.
And here in the radar view, there’s now a new button.
Radars here in the upper right, where you can select which radar you’d like to see information from.
By default, our capital cities are listed here, but you can go into any of the state and territory pages and find regional radars as well.
For today, let’s go into New South Wales and select Newcastle.
And here you might notice a few changes.
The map is zoomed and centred on the radar you’ve selected.
The zoom level is approximately the same as the 128km zoom which was available on our old website.
Also in the radar viewer, there’s a radar card in the top left telling you which radar you’re looking at and a symbol right on the radar’s location.
We have added these dynamic range rings, and these rings will scale up or scale down as you zoom in and out on the map.
Range rings are these circles around the radars location alongside distances on the horizontal line.
That’s there to act as a guide and help you judge how far away the rainfall is from known landmarks and locations.
There have been some data processing improvements to the rainfall, so it should look a little better in situations where the rain is very light or where you’re seeing information from overlapping radar sites.
Once you’ve selected a radar to put on the map and you go back to the top here, you will now have a unique link in your URL right at the top, which you can save and bookmark or even share.
Every time you follow that link, the radar page will open with the radar exactly as you like it.
If you don’t want these settings on your map, that’s fine too, they can be toggled off.
To do so, you go into the settings on the upper right and you toggle off radar sites, much like you can with radar coverage.
I hope you enjoy using the new radar tools and if you do run into any trouble, you can always visit the website help page for tips and troubleshooting advice.
Senior Meteorologist Angus Hines shows the new rain radar and weather map tools and improved radar images in the 16 September 2026 website update.
