Forecast Material

Important - Notes on understanding forecasts.

BoM Glossary - Nice feature, explaining commonly used weather terms.

Bureau Weather Warnings - click here - Essential viewing if you are planning outside activities.

Rural Fire Service - Blue Mountains, current fire situation.

Sydney Forecast - Text forecast for those travelling into the city.

Central Tablelands Forecast - Once there, scroll down for the Central Tablelands outlook.

Bureau of Meteorology NSW Forecast - Detailed text forecast for NSW.

Bureau of Meteorology Marine Forecasts - Good for info on systems developing off the coast.

National Weather Charts - BoM four day surface charts and more, for Australia.

Elders National Weather Charts - Seven day charts from Elders.

Bureau of Meteorology radar page - National radars and learn about radars.

Bureau of Meteorology Seasonal Outlook - Including ElNino wrap-up.

Sydney Catchment Authority - Dam levels and more.

iliveinsydney.com - Dam levels etc. Great site.

Sea Surface Temps - A good site for past and present SSTs.

Sea Surface Temps - Global - Regularly updated. No archive.

Monthly Anomolous MSLP

Climate Change Trend Maps - Interesting site to see how the world has warmed.

Forecasting Material - More Technical

See forecasting model help article here

BoM Forecast Rainfall - Model generated output. Not forecaster based.

10 Day AVN/MRF Forecasts - To learn about this link, see the Cold Climate Information link here

Long Wave Trough - BoM version of the Long Wave Trough.

BoM Operational Forecasts - BoM new forecast initiative.

OCF - more info about above link - Visit Laurier William's site for this excellent service introduced by the BoM.

GFS Charts from Elders site - Surface pressure, rainfall and thickness. Nice layout.

NOMAD home page - Model analysis for the more experienced.

Snow Watch - Snow forecasting from Australian Weather News. Good explanation notes on the site.

More Bom model links - Some good free info here.

GFS Model link - Try the 'More GFS Model options' link below if this is overloaded or here

More GFS Model options

ECMWF - Limited free material but useful when comparing models 3 to 6 days out.

ECMWF - Cloud cover charts from ECMWF.

NOGAPS model

Cola Link

WetterZentrale - German model central. Lots of good charts if you know basic German.

Even more model links - Courtesy of australiasevereweather.com

Bom soundings - Enter "bomw0007" for user id and "aviation" for password.