Severe weather update video and transcript: Fire danger in New South Wales and Queensland

22/09/2017 - National

SUBJECTS: Fire danger in NSW and Qld, high temperatures forecast

SENIOR METEOROLOGIST ANDREA PEACE: Hello from the Bureau of Meteorology. Today—Friday 22 September—is forecast to be Australia's warmest September day on record. And with this extreme heat comes the increased risk of bushfire—particularly in New South Wales and Queensland this weekend.

And in fact, severe to possibly extreme fire dangers are forecast over... read more...

Mount Stapylton radar switched on and ready for storm season

22/09/2017 - QLD

Brisbane's Mt Stapylton weather radar will be switched on again today following completion of a mid-life upgrade.

Bureau of Meteorology Queensland State Manager, Mr Bruce Gunn, said Mt Stapylton was one of four Doppler radars to receive a mid-life upgrade, in addition to radars located in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

The project was planned for completion ahead of the wet season, when rainfall and thunderstorm activity typically begins to... read more...

Bureau welcomes release of Technical Advisory Forum report

08/09/2017 - National

The Bureau of Meteorology welcomes the Technical Advisory Forum’s third and final report on the operation of the Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature (ACORN-SAT) dataset.

The Forum once again found the dataset to be well maintained and an important source of information on Australian climate records.

The Forum has again noted the importance of adjusting data through the process of homogenisation to maintain... read more...

Bureau welcomes findings of Automatic Weather Station review

07/09/2017 - National

The Bureau of Meteorology has today released the findings of a Review into its Automatic Weather Station (AWS) network.

The Review was conducted by a Panel made up of three internationally recognised independent experts and two senior officers from the Bureau. The Panel was commissioned to evaluate the integrity of the AWS network following equipment failures in Goulburn and Thredbo which caused the loss of some temperature data below minus 10.4 degrees celsius.... read more...