Veteran Web Cam
Copyright © 1998-2006
Veteran, Queensland, Australia Latitude S26º 7'37''  Longitude E152º 42'8" Elevation: 157 Metres

About the Cameras: The top camera is facing 192° SSW. It is on-line 24 hrs every day and uploads every two minutes, archives for the time-lapse are uploaded every 10 minutes.  Gympie is located at the centre of the picture, just behind the tree line before the ranges, a distance of approximately 7 km.
Just to the right of centre, there is a gap in the trees, this is the "Gympie Wine Glass" (Water Tower).
The mountains in the background  are the foothills of the Great Dividing Range. During the Summer months Cumulonimbus Cells build up over these mountains and head for the Eastern seaboard (South Pacific Ocean) which is approximately 40 km to the East of Gympie. ( Left of the Picture).
About the 'Current Prediction' The weather station uses a number of given parameters and Boolean equations to predict the foreseeable weather trend, for instance, if it is raining very heavy and the wind gusts exceed a given strength then it assumes that a thunderstorm is currently being experienced on the site. On the other hand, if the barometric pressure is dropping rapidly, the dew point is rising and the temperature is also rising in relation to the height of the cloud base, the prediction will be for a thunderstorm to develop. As the rates of change occur, it is sometimes difficult to know what the prediction is going to be, the best way is to look at the long term trend given by the icons in the web cam pictures using the 6 hour archives. By doing this you will get a reasonably accurate prediction of what kind of weather lies ahead for the region. Obviously the picture taken by the camera is an indication of the current climate as well.      

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Rainfall:  Today 0.00 mm Current rate: 0.00 mm/hr   Temperature:  18.2 °C Current rate: 1.9 °C/hr

Barometer:  1013 mb Current rate: -0.5 mb/hr    Cloud Base:   Ft   Density Alt:  Ft