In this release you will find:
- updated colours used for the new national Fire Danger Ratings System
- fix for flood watch formatting
- fix to address an issue with the 'use my location' functionality
BOM Weather is the Bureau of Meteorology's weather app, giving you the most accurate weather information at your fingertips.
The BOM Weather app includes:
Current and today’s conditions
- Temperature
- Weather icon
- 'Feels like’ temperature
- Min/Max
- Possible rainfall range
- Current weather description
- Wind (in km/h OR knots – tap to change) and wind gust
- Humidity
- Rain since 9am
Forecasts
- 1-hourly forecast for 72 hours including temperature, rain, wind direction and gust, and speed (in km/h OR knots)
- 7-day forecast including temperature, text weather summary, fire danger rating, UV Index and sun protection 4 days ahead, sunrise/sunset and moon phases
- Waters forecast including wind, seas, swell, and tides. Plus the summary for the days ahead
Warnings
- Weather warnings for your current locations
- Push Notifications for one location for these warnings - tropical cyclone,
fire weather, flood, tsunami, severe weather, severe thunderstorm
Radar
- Pan and zoom rain radar map
- Your location marked on radar map
- Radar coverage layer
Location
- Search for any location in Australia
- Save your favourite locations
- ‘Move with me’ (current location)
Other features
- Weather mood background and night-time mode
- Quick access to rain radar
- Enhanced metadata to give you the location of the observations and the forecast last updated times
- Accessible design that allows you to resize the font in your device settings
- View in landscape or portrait mode (device rotation)
- Dark mode
