Data Feeds

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.

Australian capital city summaries

• Forecasts - HTML | Text
• Observations - HTML

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)
    • 00Z - IDY02122
    • 06Z - IDY02128
    • 12Z - IDY02123
    • 18Z - IDY02129
  • Gridded forecast rainfall - (netCDF format and images)
  • UV Index values

Observations

The following observation products are produced every hour, and the last 24 hours are available on the ftp directory.

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

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.

See also

• Full details on how to access the Bureau's FTP server
• Observation products available through a subscription service
  These products are updated every ten minutes.
  (This link goes to a page of regional links. To get any information a password and user id are required. For full details see the registered user services information page.)
• Climate Data and Further Information
• About Services and Products - general introduction
• Weather Analysis Archives
• Realtime Data and Formats

Last updated: 5/11/2008