Weather tools from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Managing your growing crop with the weather in mind can be a challenge, so having a suite of forecasting and historical data available, can help with decision making.
The Bureau of Meteorology has been releasing new tools for agriculture and natural resource management.
In this interactive online training session, attendees worked closely with Bureau’s horticulture segment lead Rachel Davis and senior meteorologist Jonathan How on the following topics: what tools are available, where they can be found, how they work and how they are best used.
Resources:
Climate outlooks - Longer range forecasts that look at rainfall and temperature, including a video summary.
Climate services for agriculture - CSA provides users with historical data (1961-current), seasonal forecasts (1-3 months) and future climate projections (2030, 2050, 2070), providing famers with climate information for their local area to help them better prepare for climate risks.
Rainfall update - Rainfall recorded at weather stations, daily, past weekly, and past monthly data can be viewed
BOM Radar - Rainfall radar that shows current rainfall. The BOM mobile App shows a prediction 1.5 hours ahead of the present.
Satellite - Images from Himawari-9 satellite, new images every 10 minutes.
MetEye - MetEye is an online mapping tool or Geographic Information System (GIS), used to visualise weather data for Australia. MetEye contains information about Bureau Forecasts and Observations.
Climate data services - Daily and monthly statistics, historical weather observations, rainfall, temperature and solar tables, graphs and data available for weather stations.
Average condition maps - These maps provide information about average as well as more extreme conditions
BOM app - Current weather, forecasts, radar and warnings, free on mobile.
Australian water outlook - An interactive website that provides Australia-wide information on key landscape water balance components including soil moisture, runoff, evapotranspiration and precipitation.
Australian CliMate - Designed for decision makers who use knowledge of system status (e.g. soil water, heat sum) and probabilities of weather events to manage risk.
