Using the Current weather section
- Use the green menu at the top, and grey sub-menus that open up below it, for AWN's current weather presentations
- Use the menu above for links to other sites
Finding what you want
- Charts: Detailed national and regional weather charts of Australia, many updated hourly. Also charts for the rest of the world updated 6-hourly.
- Radar and Lightning: See national and state rainfall radar at a glance, then home in on individual radars. National lightning distribution and radar archives are available.
- 10 Min obs: Observations every 10 minutes from capital cities and some regional centres. Click placenames for a one-week archive.
- Hourly obs: Use a map to access all recent Automatic Weather Station reports, some hourly, some half-hourly, plus extra reports during severe weather.
- Synoptic obs: The most detailed weather reports from automatic and manned stations, many 3-hourly. Presented by state for each observation time (with archive), by district for full days for the past week, and for capital cities, regional centres and alpine stations. Special Noteworthy Observations bulletin picks out severe or abnormal weather.
- Rain and River: The best place to look for recent rainfall information. AWN's interface to the Bureau of Meteorology's real-time rainfall and river flood warning data and maps.
- Daily data: Use a map to access rainfall, temperature, wind, sunshine, evaporation and soil temperature data for today, this month and the past year. Can be sorted by location or element.
- Today's Daily Summary: This is the most detailed summary of each day's Australian weather available. Graphics, statistics and descriptions of weather events, extremes and routine observations across the country are added progressively through the day and subsequently, as information becomes available. Nine-year archive availalble.
- Weather briefings: Pull charts and information for specific regions together on the one screen. Currently only available for Sydney and around.
- DA Data: Resources and real-time data formatted for users of Digital Atmosphere analysis software.
- Links to other sites menu (on the left, above) leads to many other sites, organised by area of interest.
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| Use the menu in the green bar above to access AWN's current weather information |
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Latest 6-hourly surface chart.
Click image for a one-day animation. BoM
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Latest hourly infrared satellite
image. Click image for a 3-hour colour animation.
Click here for animation without coloured background.
Use this Strike One site for animations of the past two weeks satellite images
Image from JMA satellite
MTSAT-1R via BoM
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Latest Australian radar mosaic superimposed on clouds from BoM. Click image for a one-day animation.
Get Australian radar for past 8 hours | 1 day | 1 week from BoM.
Use this Strike One site for animations of the past two weeks radar for individual sites |
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Recent lightning strikes from LF*EM.
Strikes above are shown in blue and sensors are the circled red asterisks. IR
satellite cloud images are provided by the US
National Weather Service/Aviation Weather Center.
Use the GPATS site (select lightning monitor from the menu) for maps of lightning stroke incidents and intensities, and graphs of today's lightning statistics.
Use this Strike One site for animations of the past two weeks lightning maps |
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