Bureau of Meteorology - Information and Useful Links

Website

  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • Severe Weather Outlook video for this 2016
  • Tropical Cyclone Warning front page (there are a stack of useful links from this page)
  • Tropical cyclones – watch videos abouttropical cyclone categories,understanding cyclone forecast track mapsandhow and why tropical cyclones are named
  • Climate – main pageto find all sorts of useful climate reports and outlooks. As well as athree monthly climate outlook,the weeklyTropical Climate Noteprovides up to date info on the status of many climate influences. It's easy to subscribe to this and other email alerts for these and many other products viathis page.
  • Climate drivers – here are a couple of videos which explain the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), both of which were mentioned in the 2016 presentation at CDU
  • Water and the land (WATL)- this page provides daily (7 day out) and four days/eight day forecast totals for rainfall based on weather outlook models. Use the drop down menu at the top of the map to adjust the settings.It's a useful place to get a sense of likely overall rainfall across the region.
  • NT rainfall and river conditions page on our website is a useful place to track the 24 hour rainfall at locations via a map (select 24 Hour Rainfalls at the top of the page). If you select the River Conditions option at the top of the page, you can also click through to view the river heights at all measured locations.
  • #AskBOM is a series of videos created to explain various weather phenomena and the videos cover subjects such as what is ‘feels like’ temperature, what is a thunderstorm, and what’s that cloud
  • 2016 State of the Climate report – which BoM produces every two years in partnership with CSIRO

Twitter

BoM always tweet their warnings – tropical cyclones, severe weather, severe thunderstorms and floods. Follow us on Twitter@BOM_NT

App

BOM Weather App is the Bureau of Meteorology's weather app, giving you the most accurate weather information as you move around.BOM Weather gives you current conditions; forecasts; radar; warnings (including live updates); location based information

Just search BOM Weather: or