Using AWN
AWN is a HUGE site (315,440 files as at 27/11/12) but finding your way around is easy if you follow this short guide.
- Use the menu and sub-menus at the top of each screen to go to AWN's main sections.
- Some pages that don't
have the menu bar at the top open in a new window.
- The main weather pages have a Links to other sites box that leads you to links to hundreds of relevant sites outside AWN.
- 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 7-day OCF 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 going back to the beginning of weather records. 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 as well as tech stuff for those keen to expand their weather knowledge.
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- 27 July 2014 - New meteogram links page introduced. A new page that provides links to, and explanations of, some of the most useful meteogram pages for Australian locations on the web has been introduced. Meteograms are either graphs or tables, and sometimes both, that show the forecast weather for one place using a horizontal timeline with various weather elements placed vertically. They are useful for seeing changes in weather through the day (e.g. how much rain is happening at different times) as well as seeing how the different weather elements change in sympathy with one another (e.g. a cold change brings a temperature drop, rain and strong winds). Use the Meteograms link in the links box on the main forecasts page, or use this direct link.
- 24 July 2014 - Global climate for June. NOAA's monthly analysis of climate and extremes for June is available. June had the highest average global temperature (land and ocean included) since its record database began in 1880, following a record high in May. April was also a record high but equalled that set in April 2010, and this followed fourth warmest months in January and March. The year to date (January to June) figures show that a large part of eastern Australia recorded its warmest first half of the year on record. The average ocean temperature for June 2014 was the highest on record for any month of the year since records began. While this NOAA National Climatic Data Center website is primarily USA focussed, it has several useful global sections available in the pull-down menus though some have ceased to be updated.
- 19 July 2014 - Global climate for May. NOAA's monthly analysis of climate and extremes across the world for May.
- 19 July 2014 - Glacial melt. The Big Melt Accelerates, from The New York Times science section.
- 19 July 2014 - Global warming. The New Warmal: Global Temps Break Another Record, from Bloomberg.
- 18 July 2014 - Radar and lightning upgrade. The page for radar and lightning links has been updated with a number of links to new sites added.
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