This release includes:
- new heatwave warning and push notification option
- performance improvements
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
