WeatheX needs you, the citizen scientist, to watch and report severe weather events wherever you are using your smartphone.
Severe weather events are often missed by weather instruments and are difficult to capture. Why? Because weather radar cannot see close to the ground and surface weather stations are sparsely located. Your reports will vastly improve our ability to capture these events and contribute to better understanding.
WeatheX allows you to report the severity, location and timing of hail size, wind damage, flooding and tornadoes. You can also capture a photo or add a description of the event. This information will be used by weather and climate researchers, including the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Monash University and Australian Bureau of Meteorology. All reports and photos will remain anonymous and no identifying information is collected.
The app also allows you to view the location and time of recent reports across Australia. Zoom, pan and investigate what's happening locally or the other side of the country. You will also see your own report on the map immediately after reporting too!
To get started with reporting, download and open the WeatheX, select the + button on the map and choose a weather type. Please provide a description if possible, or if you need to report a previous event.
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Weather fanboy
Hi there and good afternoon at WeatheX App I love the idea of this app and have summited a few severe weather events on app. I don’t know how many use app, however it doesn’t seem as popular as it should be. Which in my opinion is a vast waste of a good apps potential to gather important information about the weather and climate. Why doesn’t WeatheX join forces with one of the top Australian weather apps such as Weatherzone app or the BOM app. Before too long you guys would have climate and weather stats and info coming out left, right and centre. I just fail to see how the WeatheX app, no matter how good it is would be able to gather any sort of real info or give a clear honest picture of the weather and climate. I would pay a fare price for using an app that was more out there for the community to access and summit reports. It has so much potential long term for gathering such info and changes over time climate wize. There is nothing else like this app in Australia for Australialian Citizen scientists to use and summit data, But very sadly its wasted as is, because not enough people have taken up its use. That’s why I suggested in the most politest way possible that it should be a part of let’s say one of the other most popular weather apps in Australia. Being just for example, WeatherZone app or the BOM app. Then then the data would fly in. P.S. are you guys planning to put any other functions and or layers to this app also. It seems a bit bare bones as is. Thanks in advance Sincerely Weather geek and WeatheX fanboy Leon
Neat citizen science app
What a great app! An easy-to-use app that allows the public to contribute data that could be used to improve forecasts of severe weather. A really nice example of citizen science complementing more traditional scientific data.
An app that actually helps scientists
The WeatheX is incredibly simple to use and it’s clear that earlier bugs have now been fixed.
Basically it allows you to record wind, hail, floods and tornadoes with the touch of a few buttons.
What I particularly like about it is that the data goes to researchers who use it to get a better understanding of storms, so we can improve our forecasts and perhaps get a sense of how they may change with global warming.
That to me is the key appeal, knowing that simply by recording an event as it happens, I am directly contributing to a better understanding of extreme events. Who knows, maybe as a result of the research from these observations we may be able to save lives in the future.
If the few seconds I take to record an observation has that kind of benefit, then that’s good enough for me.
No crowdsourcing Verification = no data integrity
Why would you bother. There’s nothing stopping ‘trolls’ logging bogus obs. I.e. it’s 37C and cloudless in the Sydney basin today (currently) and some idiot has posted flooding in Sydney’s inner west at 10:30 am this AM. Why would you bother with this app!
Great app!
What a great simple way to report extreme weather. Very impressed.
Fundamentally flawed
Don’t even bother with this app. There are serious bugs (or really questionable design choices) that drastically reduce its usefulness. GPS location does not work at all. Slide up and/or pop up menus do not allow for dismissal without input. Back to the drawing board with this one...
