Weather and climate forecasts

Here you’ll find links to reputable online sources of weather and climate forecasts for Australia.

• Weather and warnings - Bureau of Meteorology
• Water and the Land (WATL) - Bureau of Meteorology
• Seasonal outlooks - Bureau of Meteorology
• Multi-week forecasts - Centre for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• Multi-week forecasts - Bureau of Meteorology

Weather and warnings - Bureau of Meteorology

Weather forecasts, warnings and observations for Bureau of Meteorology weather stations across Australia.

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Water and the Land (WATL) - Bureau of Meteorology

WATL (pronounced 'wattle') brings together climate and weather information for farmers, including forecasts for:

• rainfall
• temperature
• wind
• pressure
• humidity
• evaporation
• sunshine
• El Niño and La Niña

Seasonal outlooks - Bureau of Meteorology

Seasonal outlooks include:

• 3-month rainfall outlook for north, south-east and western Australia
• 3-month temperature outlook for north, south-east and western Australia
• ENSO wrap-up - regular commentary on the El Niño - Southern Oscillation
• ENSO outlooks - forecast of El Niño and La Niña events - a summary of the opinion of National Climate Centre climatologists on the outputs from eight reputable climate models

Multi-week forecasts - Centre for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

This site has the only multi-week forecast for Australia.

Temperature and rainfall outlooks:

• 0–5 day outlook
• 6–10 day outlook
• 10-day anomalies

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Multi-week forecast - Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology, with support from Managing Climate Variability, is developing an Australian-based multi-week forecast.

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