A Coalition minister has called on the Albanese government to fix the revamped taxpayer-funded Bureau of Meteorology website after it was met with heavy criticism.

The website, which received 2.6 billion page views a year, was relaunched last Wednesday but was inundated with criticism of its new features almost immediately.

Experts fear changes in the way storms are presented will make it harder to see hail storms as they approach, while ordinary Australians using the site have complained that the upgrade makes it harder to find their suburb.

Shadow communications minister Melissa McIntosh said the latest revamp was a bit of a “joke” ahead of expected severe weather this summer.

“This is taxpayers' money when it's not doing its job efficiently, when people rely on it, you don't want

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