Be angry with the Government then – it’s Niwa and MetService who have commercialised/blocked access to tax funded radar and tax funded weather data which (as we’ve said for 15 years now) would fix that very problem.

If we were in Australia this problem wouldn’t exist as we could factor live radar data into our forecasts and live observations – neither of which MetService nor Niwa allow us to do yet without something big in return. It’s free to use in Australia, UK, Canada, USA etc. Niwa wants 1 million a year off us to display current weather observations from publicly owned weather stations.

Lobby your local MP or the Government to make change – they have their second review in place now, after entirely ignoring the last review in 2017 which said NZ weather data is expensive and hard to access or use for the good of the public.

We can only do so much as a small business – yet we’re still more accurate overall than Niwa and MetService when it comes to rain forecasting, despite the Government commercialising them both as Government Agencies to forecast weather using your taxes.

Cheers
Phil D

Hi there, we’re not sure why this has happened. We’ve had another person contact us with a similar issue, where it shows some local data but then the forecasts are for a larger location close/nearby. We’re looking into it, so thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Regards,
– WW

Hi Ian, no “knot” yet lol 🙂
Working on it though and hope to bring an upgrade later this year.
Cheers
– WW