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Links - Weather and Season Australia |
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Following are some links to resources about the seasons and weather in
Australia, which we hope you find
useful. Remember, when planning to travel anywhere in Australia, you should always cross-check
weather conditions with the visitor centre at your destination, or the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. |
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Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology
• This is the site
for current news summary and latest media release on weather. They also have
weather forecasts warnings and observations.
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Telephone Weather Services (TWS): Directory
There is a list of
Telephone
Weather Services and telephone numbers. According to the website, weather
observations (AWS reports) are updated either every 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or
hourly.
Please Note: Bureau of Meteorology Telephone Weather Services (TWS) delivers
pre-recorded messages only. To speak to a Bureau staff member you will need to
contact a Bureau Office.
- National
Weather and Warnings Information
Current warnings, forecasts, observations and national weather charts.
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Phone number, email, addresses and postal address
Has a complete list of phone number, email, addresses and postal address.
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Australian Climates
What does the word 'climate' mean? This and more.
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Australian Climate Zones
Köpen classification scheme, as demonstrated in maps.
- Climate
Averages
There is a climate overview and variety of maps showing climate
classification, mean rainfall and temperature, sunshine duration, days of rain
etc.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Government site includes information and summary on climatic conditions around
Australia:
Year Book Australia - Geography and Climate.
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 Australian Weather
Forecast
• 1 - 10 days. Accurate forecasts based
on results of 15 worldwide weather sources.
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Astronomical
Information
• Compute your own sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, azimuth
and elevation, browse moon phase and planet data. Don't live in Australia, don't
worry... this program will work for anywhere in the world.
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Operational Significant
Event Imagery
• Part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
in the US, the team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant
environmental events. Imagery include current events, dust storms, fires,
floods, icebergs, ocean, severe weather, snow cover, storms, tropical cyclones,
hurricanes, typhoons, volcanoes etc.
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Climate and Weather Atlas of Australia
- By Michael Thompson
• Provides state by state climate summaries. A personal
site by someone who has a passionate interest in the weather.
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| Queensland |
RACQ
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Queensland based motoring service. Check out the Travel, Road Touring section,
it includes information on Road Conditions, such as those affected by floods
etc.
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Transport SA
• Ph: 1300 360 067 (General enquiries) • Ph: +61 8 8343 2222 (Interstate and overseas
callers)
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Driving in South Australia
• Contains section on Australian Road
Rules, Driver's Licence, The Driver's Handbook, Handbook for Older Drivers, Road
Safety, and Driving tips for South Australian Roads. The last part includes
alerts for Far Northern and Western Areas Road Report (has status of many
outback roads including the Strzelecki/Bridsville Tracks, Oodnadatta Track,
Gawler Ranges, Flinders Ranges), and Metropolitan and Country Roadworks (alerts
for drivers of road conditions such as roadworks, major accidents, traffic
signal faults and other traffic pro9blems).
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South Australia Central
• Has a list of weather related links on the
Information and Community Weather page to do with South Australia. There is even a link to South Australian Weather by Regions.
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WorldClimate • Email:
online form
• What the weather is normally like for tens of thousands of places
worldwide! Based on long term averages, it does not provide weather forecasts,
so it won't tell you what the weather is like tomorrow (or yesterday).
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Weather
Underground
• A commercial weather service
providing real-time weather information via the internet for most major cities
in the world.
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predictweather.com
• AThe home of long range forecasting.
This website you will find an alternative way of looking at weather and climate.
You will also find another viewpoint on climate change
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