Summary of UKMO BoM WOW pages
bom-wow.metoffice.gov.uk/
they say “Welcome to the Bureau of Meteorology Weather Observation Website The Bureau of Meteorology has collaborated with the UK Met Office so Australians may easily lodge and share weather observations, information and photos. Find out more about WOW and read the Bureau’s Disclaimer. For official Australian data, forecasts and warnings, go to www.bom.gov.au.”
There is a Blog or as they say a Forum.
groups.google.com/g/met-office-wow
And we find the first posts to the Forum were ~Aug 2013 and there were 111 posts and last post was in Oct 2018. So the public seems to have given up on WOW. I think it is clear from the URL that WOW was originally a UKMO idea – I guess BoM jumped on board and apart from the map of real time temperatures it all looks a bit like an unloved project now. Remember Climategate started in Nov 2009 so WOW was initiated by UKMO not long after dust was settling from Climategate which was a disaster for many many IPCC compliant National Met Office Orgs like UKMO and BoM.
A personal note here – WOW went under my radar till I heard about it in the last week or so on a sceptics email forum.