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Bureau of Meteorology Weather Data Services

Australian précis, town, and district forecasts, warnings, and ten-minute observations as XML from the Bureau's anonymous feeds.

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About

Weather Data Services is the Bureau of Meteorology's set of anonymous data feeds for Australia. Forecast, warning, and observation products are published as XML on the Anonymous FTP server under anon/gen, with state warning feeds in RSS. Each state and territory gets a précis, city, town, and district forecast. Observation summaries refresh every ten minutes and radar images every five. The Bureau's copyright notice confines anonymous products to use within your own organisation.

Through Fibric, an operator reads the forecast and warning products for your Australian sites and proposes a hold, a notice, or a schedule change, then waits for your approval.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Bureau of Meteorology Weather Data Services and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Précis, City, Town, and District Forecasts per state and territory as XML products under anon/gen
  • Warnings as they are issued, through state RSS feeds and the Anonymous FTP product listing
  • State and territory observation summaries in XML, updated every ten minutes
  • 72-hour station observations in xml, axf, and json formats
  • Radar images for each radar every five minutes, with static transparencies and overlays in a separate directory
  • Himawari-9 satellite images every ten minutes in JPG and GeoTIFF
  • Coastal Waters and Local Waters Forecasts, and UV Index with sun protection times

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Hold deliveries under a severe weather warning

    Follow the warning RSS feed for the states you deliver to. When a warning names your area, the operator proposes holding the affected orders and a customer notice, and you decide.

    With Weather Hold

  • Prepare a property before a cyclone

    Watch the warning feed and the district forecast for each property. When a warning covers your district, the operator proposes the storm checklist and a tenant notice for your approval.

    With Storm Prep

  • Move outdoor crews ahead of a heat day

    Read the town forecast for each site. When the forecast maximum passes your threshold, the operator proposes shifting outdoor work earlier and records the forecast product it used.

    With Intraday Balance

Requirements

  • The product ID for each forecast, warning, or observation product you need, from the Anonymous FTP listing
  • An FTP or HTTP client, and the product.xsd and amoc.xsd schemas to decode the XML
  • Use confined to your own organisation, or a Registered User agreement for publication or commercial use
Authentication
None for the anonymous feeds; FTP and web access needs no account. Registered User Services provide Cloud (S)FTP and support under a data licence.

Limits

  • Anonymous products are free to access and not for commercial use; supplying them to others needs Registered User Services
  • The Bureau does not guarantee availability of information on the FTP site
  • Each product instance stays on the FTP for its delete time in hours, then disappears if not reissued
  • The copyright notice forbids scraping bom.gov.au pages; the FTP and RSS products are the route

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

Can the feeds be used commercially?
Not under anonymous access. The Bureau states these products are free to access and not for commercial use, and its default copyright terms allow use within your organisation only. Publishing or commercial supply needs Registered User Services and a data licence.
How often do products update?
State observation summaries update every ten minutes. Radar images issue every five minutes and Himawari-9 satellite images every ten. Forecasts and warnings follow the Bureau's issue cycle; warning products appear only while a hazard is present.
How are products named?
By product ID. The prefix gives the state: IDN for NSW and ACT, IDV for Victoria, IDQ for Queensland, IDS for South Australia, IDW for Western Australia, IDT for Tasmania, IDD for the Northern Territory. IDR is radar, IDE satellite, IDX charts.
Ask about Bureau of Meteorology Weather Data Services

Ask about the capabilities and requirements in this listing.

For project-specific requirements, contact Fibric.

This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Australian Bureau of Meteorology (ftp.bom.gov.au, www.bom.gov.au). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy