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Precis Forecast Products

There are eight Australia-specific Precis (In-brief) forecast products - one National product and one for each State or Territory. The national product is a composite of the State and Territory products. These files are updated whenever new forecast data is available.

Product listing

National	IDA00001	text	html
NSW	IDA00002	text	html
Vic	IDA00003	text	html	XML (schema)
QLD	IDA00004	text	html
SA	IDA00005	text	html
WA	IDA00006	text	html
Tas	IDA00007	text	html
NT	IDA00008	text	html

Description of the data fields in the text file

The first row describes the fields while all other rows contain forecast information for one particular location. A description of the data fields in each of the precis forecast files follows:

location	Location for which Precis forecast applies (field size: 30)
state	State in which "Location" resides (field size: 3)
forecast_date	Date for which forecast applies (format: YYYYMMDD)
issue_date	Date when forecast is issued (format: YYYYMMDD)
issue_time	Local time where forecast is issued (format: HHMMDD)
min_0	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date"
max_0	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date"
min_1	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 1 day
max_1	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 1 day
min_2	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 2 day
max_2	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 2 day
min_3	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 3 day
max_3	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 3 day
min_4	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 4 day
max_4	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 4 day
min_5	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 5 day
max_5	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 5 day
min_6	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 6 day
max_6	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 6 day
min_7	Forecasted minimum temperature for "forecast_date" + 7 day
max_7	Forecasted maximum temperature for "forecast_date" + 7 day
forecast_0	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date"
forecast_1	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 1 day
forecast_2	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 2 day
forecast_3	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 3 day
forecast_4	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 4 day
forecast_5	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 5 day
forecast_6	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 6 day
forecast_7	Short forecast summary for "forecast_date" + 7 day

Note, the products are made available from our ftp site. For details on how to access our FTP site please view the following information:
ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/index.html

See also the information on data feeds available for computer ingestion.

Last updated: 5/11/2008

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