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The Bureau of Meteorology is the main provider of weather forecasts, warnings and observations to the Australian public. The Bureau's head office is in Melbourne Docklands , which includes the Bureau's Research Centre, the Bureau National Operations Centre, the National Climate Centre, the Victorian Regional Forecasting Centre as well as the ...
The CP2 Research radar was a 1970's era radar, which the BoM received as a gift from the NCAR in the United States. The BoM retrofitted it with modern parts which gave it the unique ability to collect data at two frequencies, S and X band. The upgrades also provided state of the art dual polarisation and doppler technologies.
Climate data for Hobart (Battery Point) 1991–2020 averages, 1882–present extremes. ... Source 2: Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart Airport (sunshine hours) [5]
During the heat wave, several records were broken; Tasmania recorded its highest-ever temperature; 42.2 °C (108 °F) in Scamander, and the long-standing Tasmanian record of 40.8 °C (105.4 °F) (recorded in Hobart on 4 January 1976) was broken five times within two days at Flinders Island, Fingal (twice), St Helens and Scamander, [7] while Hopetoun in Victoria recorded the state's highest ...
In a June 2007 observation by the Bureau of Meteorology, there were about ten significant maritime lows with an "explosive development" usually occurring once per year. [12] Much recently, it was observed that around 22 east coast lows were recorded annually – around 2 to 3 causing daily rainfall above 100 mm (3.9 in) and 7–8 causing daily ...
A 2006 report, prepared by CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Bushfire CRC, and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, identified South Eastern Australia as one of the three most fire-prone areas in the world, [51] and concluded that an increase in fire-weather risk is likely at most sites over the next several decades, including the average ...
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology. "Latest Weather Observations for Lake Leake". updated once a day; Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology. "Agricultural Observations Bulletin for Tasmania". updated once a day, includes evaporation, wind run and hours of sun
Föhn cloud over the Crackenback Range, near Jindabyne. The southeast Australian foehn is a westerly foehn wind and a rain shadow effect that usually occurs on the coastal plain of southern New South Wales, and as well as in southeastern Victoria and eastern Tasmania, on the leeward side of the Great Dividing Range.