As you can imagine, it requires a narrow range of conditions for a thunderstorm to become tornadic. The key conditions are: an intense, sustained updraught; strong wind shear, i.e. turning and ...

Portable automatic weather stations (PAWS) are operated by other organisations, such as Fire and Emergency Services, and are included here by agreement. Portable stations may be deployed to a location ...

The Australian Water Information Dictionary provides definitions of terms and acronyms used in the Bureau of Meteorology’s water information products and services.

1 These drainage divisions are not included due to either a lack of gauges or insufficient data of suitable quality available at the Bureau. 2 Information for the Victorian drainage division lags that ...

Click on the towns on the map to see how tropical cyclones affect each location. This web map should not be used to reference locations accurately.

The most significant climate driver in the Indian Ocean is the Indian Ocean Dipole, often called the IOD. The IOD refers to the year-to-year changes of tropical sea temperatures in the western and ...

Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest observation is shown in italics and coloured and removed from the table after 30 hours. Station names link to data for the ...

Note: Map contains unchecked data from automatic equipment. Please remember to refresh page so the data is up to date. Some rainfall and most river height data is provided to the Bureau of Meteorology ...

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These maps show the average annual, seasonal and monthly rainfall distribution across Australia. These maps show the average rainfall for various monthly and multi-month time spans, over the period ...

Marine and Ocean services from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology ...

These wind forecast maps are produced from computer models and may not always reflect official forecasts, especially in the vicinity of weather fronts or Tropical Cyclones. These maps show average ...