Weather, air quality, rain radar, UV, traffic, trains & local crime stats for Mount Colah — live in one place
Weather — Forecasts are pulled from Open-Meteo at −33.677°S, 151.133°E (Mount Colah), drawing on these global models:
Air quality — Current EU AQI, PM2.5, PM10 and ozone from the Open-Meteo Air Quality API for the Mount Colah coordinates.
Rain radar — Live radar imagery from RainViewer, overlaid on a CARTO / OpenStreetMap base map.
Bushfire & hazards — Live incidents from the NSW RFS Major Incidents feed (filtered to within 50 km of Mount Colah / local councils), plus the Greater Sydney fire danger rating and total fire ban status.
Traffic — Incident data is sourced from NSW Live Traffic (Transport for NSW), filtered to the Hornsby and Pacific Highway corridor. Incidents refresh every 30 minutes.
Train alerts — Service alerts from the Transport for NSW Trip Planner feed, filtered to the T1 North Shore & Northern Line (Berowra branch) that serves Mount Colah station, plus the Central Coast & Newcastle line.
Cameras — Traffic camera images come from the official Transport for NSW Open Data live camera network, covering the Pacific Highway / F3 / M1 corridor through Mount Colah, Asquith, Hornsby, Wahroonga, Berowra, and Cowan. Images refresh every 30 minutes (the cameras themselves capture a new frame every few minutes).
Crime — Annual recorded criminal incidents for the Hornsby Local Government Area from NSW BOCSAR, via the data.nsw.gov.au open data API. Updated quarterly.
UV index is included from Open-Meteo on the 24-hour and 7-day charts (dashed orange line).
Traffic camera images update every few minutes. Click any camera to view on NSW Live Traffic.
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