There are calls for Australia’s national weather service to re-examine key tools used by members of the public, days after a new website launched just shy of an explosive start to storm season.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) launched its new website on Wednesday, days before ferocious storms battered parts of the eastern Australia , leaving multiple homes damaged and tens of thousands of people without power.

New tools commonly used by members of the public have been noticeably changed in the website upgrade, including a radar system which previously allowed viewers to move between the past and future to see the location and passage of rain and thunderstorms.

The new radar only allows users to toggle back in time and to the present, leaving them unable to see the path of storms into

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