Australia's official weather app from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). Download the BOM Weather app for access to hourly and 7-day forecasts, radar and warnings – wherever you are. It's free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices, with widgets so you can see the weather at a glance. The BOM Weather app includes: Current weather - Temperature and icon - 'Feels like' temperature - Rain - Wind speed, direction and gust (in knots and km/h) - Humidity - Rainfall since 9 am - Local text forecast Forecasts - Hourly forecast temperature, wind, gust, and rain for the next 72 hours - 7-day forecast - Total wave height and direction (for relevant locations) - Sunrise and sunset times - UV and moon phase - Fire danger rating - Waters forecast and summary for the coming days, including tides (for relevant locations) Rain map - See rain 90 minutes into the past and future - Pan and zoom to anywhere in Australia - Your location is marked on the map - View optimal radar coverage areas Warning notifications - Warning notifications for up to 3 locations around Australia - Includes notifications for coastal hazards, fire weather, flood, heatwave, marine wind, severe thunderstorm, severe weather, tropical cyclone, and tsunami Past weather - Latest highs and lows, including highest and lowest temperature, highest wind gust and total rain - 72 hours of temperature, wind and rain Locations - Use your current location - Save your favourite locations - Search for any location in Australia - View your recent location Widgets - See weather details for your current or selected location - Provides current, minimum and maximum temperature and more - Add one or many widgets for locations around Australia
Handy weather info
It's really nice to be able to cycle through the "confidence level" of the rain predictions. Most times I just want to know what's likely to happen, but sometimes when you make plans you need to know if there's any chance at all of rain.
Tracking for Severe Thunderstorms
Flash floods can be a big problem in the Australia’s Northern Territory and Uluru gets the spectacular lightning storms and same does in Alice Springs and be safe to watch at the Ayers Rock Resort village in Yulara and so many trees are attracted to lightning strikes. And do not swim or boating in the water in places of Australia when the water conducts electricity when lightning strikes. Lightning is one of the most powerful forces of nature. I love watching lightning storms.
Great!
Pro tip: make sure you have “precise location“ turned on or the widget won’t work properly. Otherwise great!
Widget needs work
Was so excited to have a BOM weather widget on my Home Screen. Unfortunately it doesn’t work so well. The colours don’t change with the light/dark mode transition. The temperature only updates perhaps twice during the day. Which is most frustrating when I go from home to work an hour away and the location is still my home (and with the temperature last measured there). Groan. It also doesn’t update properly when you edit the widget location (the widget goes blank, I guess until it decides to update in a few hours?). It seems all of these are connected to the update frequency. Even with all permissions given and background refresh on, it’s glitchy. Weather updates should be every hour at the very least. Please fix.
Awesome app, now with widgets!!
Love that I can now get my BOM weather on my Home Screen with the addition of widgets. Thank you for adding that! Could you please add a dark version of the widget though? When my phone switches to dark mode after sunset, every widget changes colour EXCEPT the BOM. Glows like a bright beacon :)
Fix orientation bug.
Great app, but it needs an update to read the orientation of the device and not just assume a constant orientation. I use my iPad in an inverted orientation so I can have the charger cable at the top of the screen not digging into my stomach. This simple fix would make this app a 5 star app.
forced update
Don't force me to update
This release enables coastal hazard warnings and notifications. They alert you to dangerous surf and abnormally high tides. You're already subscribed if you get our severe weather warnings. You can opt out if coastal hazards don't matter to you.
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