Despite not being able to see in the gap between I took a chance and went to Cairns today. Was a lovely day, high thin cloud and rather hot.

Checking the radar circles around the country the only ones with the peculiar 200km circle rendition are the Weipa and Cairns ones. The rest do seem to have a composite using info from adjacent radar sites out to 500k plus. I'm disturbed that the cyclone prone areas are so poorly rendered with rain bands which could indicate rotation or direction cut off over a distance of approximately 180km.