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The Bureau of Meteorology has a number of real-time forecast and observation products that can be used for ingestion by computers. These products are made available on the Bureau ftp site ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/. Each file has a date-time stamp indicating when the data file was created. A directory of the product catalogue is also available. Please read the User Information section before using the data feeds.

Australian capital city summaries

These are both shown on the Bureau's home page:

Forecasts - HTML | Text (updated whenever latest information is available, changes to tomorrow's forecast at 3pm AEST)
Observations - HTML (updated every 5 minutes)

Forecasts

Precis forecasts - National and State/Territory summaries.
All Bureau forecasts are available from the Bureau's ftp site. For Victoria only, forecasts are available in XML. See product catalogue for details of each product.
Computer model forecasts
- Operational Consensus Forecasts (OCF) - 7 day forecasts for around 700 locations (see directory for following codes). Product description document.
  - 00Z - IDY02122
  - 06Z - IDY02128
  - 12Z - IDY02123
  - 18Z - IDY02129
- Gridded forecast rainfall - (netCDF format and images)
- UV Index values

Observations for individual stations

The Bureau provides its observational data in a number of formats for use as a data feed. The 72 hour station based observational products are available in 4 file formats. Each of the product styles in the table below contain links to a list of weather stations for that State. To get the URL of a data feed for a weather station, click on a product link below, click on the link to the appropriate weather station, click on the link labelled Other formats, and then select the link to the format that suits your needs.

Australian State	State Coastal Waters	State - All Observations	State Capital City Area
Canberra Area	Not applicable	Not applicable	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60902.shtml
New South Wales - Sydney	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60900.shtml
Victoria - Melbourne	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60900.shtml
Queensland - Brisbane	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60900.shtml
South Australia - Adelaide	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDS60900.shtml
Western Australia - Perth	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60900.shtml
Tasmania - Hobart	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60900.shtml
Antarctic Area	Not applicable	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60802.shtml	Not applicable
Northern Territory - Darwin	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD60700.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD60800.shtml	http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDD60900.shtml

Observations summary for Australia

A summary of observations across Australia is compiled every hour and files for the last 24 hours are available on the ftp directory.

Product	Formats	Filename	Notes
Real-Time Synoptic Observations - Australian Region (IDY03010)	Data (.axf), or Shape file (.shp)	IDY03010.YYYYMMDDTTTT	File format (MS Word)
Real-Time METAR Observations - Australian Region (IDY03101)	Data (.axf), or Shape file (.shp)	IDY03101.YYYYMMDDTTTT	File format (MS Word)

where YYYYMMDDTTTT is a date-time stamp in UTC (add 10 hours for Eastern Standard Time).

Agicultural Bulletins in XML

Agricultural bulletins containing a summary of agricultural type observations on a daily time scale are available in XML for each State. Click on the state name for the corresponding XML version of the Agricultural Bulletin.

Radar

Radar images are available from the ftp site. The filename contains the unique ID code for the Radar, the projection and date/time in UTC. The map layers used on the Bureau's radar viewer are available in .png file format.

User information

The Bureau does not guarantee the availability of information on the ftp site.
The Service Announcements page details changes to Bureau services.
Use of data should be in accordance with the copyright notice and disclaimer.

Secondary distribution of Bureau of Meteorology information currently freely available on the Bureau's website and ftp site requires formal permission. Correct attribution of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology as the source of Bureau information is an important component of any secondary distribution permission that may be granted. Where Bureau information is to be used on a website, permission for use of that information should be applied for by the website owner.

For further information on these and other products send your request to us via our feedback system or contact the Bureau Office in your capital city.

The Bureau does not currently provide XML or RSS feeds for all its products. Work is being done to make XML available. Victoria forecasts and warnings have been available in XML since Oct 28, 2008.