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, detailed rainfall maps, and weather readings from all Australian stations.
 AWN also presents a huge range of synoptic charts covering the whole world but with particular emphasis on Australia.
- 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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2 Sept |
NSW forecast changes |
From 1 September, the Bureau of Meteorology has made major changes to its NSW and ACT forecasts. These are part of a national project (the Next Generation Forecast and Warning System) to upgrade both forecasts and forecasting systems. It is being implemented state by state, and was first put into service in Victoria in October 2008. Details of the changes for NSW are here, and information about the NextGen system is here. The graphical forecasts that have been implemented for Victoria are expected to be available for NSW in about a month. AWN has made the necessary changes to links on the Forecasts and Mobile pages. |
1 Sept |
 New synoptic charts section released
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A completely new Australian Weather News synoptic charts section has been released for beta testing by users. By going to Current > Charts, you have access to 67 huge weather maps covering the entire globe with particular emphasis on Australia. They are updated hourly with detailed weather information for thousands of locations. Each chart also has its own special home page, including a 24-hour archive for hourly maps and a one-month archive for more detailed charts produced four times a day. Help pages and on-screen diagrams make it easy to understand the plotted weather information, and the regional variations in weather reporting around the world. Check it out here. |
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