About Truganina Weather
The name Truganina (pronounced "Trug-a-NINE-a" by long-time locals) is an outer south-western suburb in the Melbourne Metropolitan Area. It is located approximately midway between Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, and Geelong, the largest provincial city in Victoria.
Truganina, or just Trug to many older locals, is predominantly within the City of Wyndham. Wyndham is a fast growing local government area and home to strong industrial and technology districts, two major retail precincts, major tourism and open space attractions, intensive market gardening and grazing areas. It has an area of 542 square kilometres and a population of more than 200,000.
The popular theory about the origin of the name is that it is named after Truganini, one of the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal women, who may have spent a short time in the area, however this has never been verified.
Background & Purpose
The owner-operator of Truganina Weather is a retired Senior Meteorologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). Our BoM career spanned 38 years that included the first 10 years as an operational weather forecaster providing forecasts and warnings to aviation, shipping and the general public; and 20 years as the manager of the marine observing program. The latter period also included 15 years as the chair of multiple international panels tasked with coordinating separate components of national marine meteorological and oceanographic observing programs to support the global programs of the WMO and the IOC.
The purpose of our PWS is "to pursue a life-long passion for observing the weather".
The objectives of our PWS and website are to:
- Record high quality daily weather data from Truganina for personal interest and analysis,
- Provide high quality real-time weather data to weather exchange networks,
- Provide website visitors with high quality and useful local weather and climate data, and
- Provide website visitors with useful complementary weather products and weather-related information.
Website
This website conforms to international web standards specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It also complies with Australian and international guidelines for web accessibility and incorporates navigational aids to assist a visually impaired visitor.
Awards
Our PWS has received the following awards from the United Kingdom Met Office Weather Observations Website (WOW) for submitting observations during the year.
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