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What is Labs? Features that we think are useful and ready for real-world testing, but haven't graduated to the main interface yet. Some are visual polish; others are bigger product bets. All are off by default and can be toggled per-account.
Labs features may change, regress, or be retired without notice. We won't break paid subscriptions over them, but we will iterate fast. The trade-off for tolerating rough edges is early access and a direct line to shape the feature — tell us what you think.
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Adds a 'Motion Trail' slider to SD radar pages (/radar/IDR…). Drag it to leave a decaying trail of recent frames behind the current one. The further right you drag, the longer the trail. Particularly useful when paused or moving slowly through frames — you can see where cells came from without having to replay the loop.
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Opens up /rainfall/extractor — a map-based interface for querying rainfall observations from BoM AWS, BoM Water Data Online rain gauges, river-rain network gauges, and DPIRD in WA, scoped to your chosen date window and area (bounding box, LGA, catchment, draw-your-own polygon). Saved extracts are listed on your account page; results are downloadable as CSV, per-station ZIP, or GeoJSON. Currently in beta — expect rough edges and an occasional missing observation source.
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Adds a bookmarkable meteogram page at /<state>/<place>/meteogram for every location (eg /vic/melbourne/meteogram), plus a point lookup on the forecast map (long-press to drop a flag, then 'View meteogram'). Stacks up to seven NWP models on the same time axis with synchronised zoom and an ensemble mean/spread tooltip. Personal tier sees ADFD + ECMWF + GFS over 7 days; Pro sees all seven models out to 14 days.
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Adds an 'Animate observations with timeline' checkbox to the live map. When ticked, the temperature, rainfall, river-height and wind markers re-paint to show each station's reading at the timestamp of the current radar/satellite frame, instead of always displaying the latest value. Loads about an hour of recent observations in one go so scrubbing the slider feels instant. Rainfall stays monotonic across the loop: AWS shows running-since-9am, rain gauges and DPIRD stations show the cumulative within the visible window. Currently in beta — back-port to the HD radar pages is planned once we've shaken bugs out here.
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Smooths the wind direction markers on the live map. With it on, each wind barb eases around to its new heading along the shortest arc rather than jumping, so the wind layer no longer flaps frame-to-frame during animation playback or on the periodic live update. Looks best paired with Animated Observations, but also tidies the regular 10-minute refreshes. Purely a visual effect — it interpolates between the actual reported directions and doesn't change the underlying data.
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Adds a per-city traffic-light viewing verdict (green/amber/red) for the Aurora Australis at /aurora, plus a focus-mode page for any Australian lat/lon (a small status pill also appears on location pages south of -32°). Pulls live NOAA Planetary Kp, DSCOVR solar-wind Bz, the 3-day Kp forecast, NOAA Ovation oval, BoM ADFD cloud cover and astronomical sun/moon times into a single dark-window plan.
Focus mode shows a horizontal 3:1 Kp/cloud/Bz/verdict timeline through the night with a per-component breakdown of what's driving the verdict, and Pushover alerts fire automatically when planetary Kp crosses storm and severe thresholds.
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