On Christmas Day, a significant lightning strike caused extensive damage to the Wyndham weather radar, rendering it inoperable for the next three months. This incident not only affects local weather ...

An unusually strong lightning strike disabled a radar in Westland, New Zealand, on Sept. 18. MetService New Zealand posted a photo of the destroyed radar dome on Facebook, saying that repairs will ...

A Kimberley pastoralist says the radar will be of little use by the time it comes back online at the end of the wet season.