Using AWN
- Use menu and sub-menus at the top of each screen to go to AWN's main sections.
- Pages that don't
have the menu bar at the top open in a new window.
- The site is best viewed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or greater.
Finding what you want
- Forecasts: Weather warnings and forecasts for all Australia, Bureau guidance forecasts for up to a week for over 600 locations, and computer model forecasts of rain and more.
- Current: The weather today and right now. Radar, lightning, satellite images, hourly charts, detailed rainfall maps, and weather readings from all Australian stations.
- Daily Weather Summaries: Charts, statistics and news stories give the most detailed national weather coverage available in one place for every day back to 1996. Today's is here.
- Recent & Climate: Rainfall, temperature and more for every Australian station for the past year. Long-term averages, charts, climate change, El Nino.
- Severe: Current and past cyclones, floods, droughts, thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, snowstorms, bushfires, gales and high seas.
- Know-how: How the weather works; observing, analysing and forecasting the weather ; and tech stuff for weather enthusiasts.
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11 September: Monthly Weather Reviews now online. The Bureau of Meteorology's long-running Monthly Weather Review series for each state and the Northern Territory, has gone online from today with the issue of the July 2008 editions. Each MWR comes in a pdf file of about 7mb, and gives a comprehensive description of the month's weather, daily charts of the synoptic situation, rainfall and temperatures, and discussions and charts of monthly temperature and rainfall. At the back of each Review are detailed climatological summaries for the capital city, and very detailed tables of daily and monthly temperatures and rainfall for all weather stations, and many rainfall stations, in the state. The access page is http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mwr/.
10 September: Daily rainfall and temperature data now available for all years of record on AWN. AWN's Recent and Climate section now has Bureau of Meteorology daily rainfall and temperature data available for all years of record, not just the previous 12 months. Other data (evaporation, wind, sunshine and weather) is available back to 2004 and will later be extended back in time.
Rainfall readings have been taken mostly by volunteer observers at nearly 20,000 locations over the past 170 years. The oldest records are for Parramatta NSW (1832), Colombo Creek in the Riverina NSW (1835), Port Arthur TAS (1837) and Adelaide SA (1839). Temperature records for most locations are only available from the mid 1950s as earlier data has not yet been computerised.
The direct link to the archives is here. Check the notice in red at the top of the map to see the status of the archives.
10 September: Monthly rainfall data for all years of record now online from the Bureau. The Bureau of Meteorology website now allows you to download all monthly rainfall totals for any of the ~19,000 rainfall stations that it has managed over the past 170 years. This is the first stage of making much of its huge archive of weather data freely available online. Go to http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/weather-data.shtml |
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