BOM Weather

Australian Bureau of Meteorology

About this app

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.

BOM Weather is free and ad free on mobile and tablet devices. It features:
- widgets so you can see the weather at a glance
- offline mode for moments when you don't have internet

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, humidity, dew point 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)

Map
- See rain 90 minutes into the past and future
- View active warnings and access warning details
- Pan and zoom to anywhere in Australia
- Your location is marked on the map
- See optimal radar coverage areas while viewing rain

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

Ratings and reviews

Its pretty good but still has isues. At 3pm 22/2/24, the app said it was 25.6 degrees at Bellbrae, 3228. I know for a fact that it was 38 degrees in the shade on our deck. I have noticed this temperature discrepancy before. Also when I tried leaving feedback on my iPhone, the keyboard obscures part of the screen and I couldn't see what I was writing. Finally, I have asked about barometric pressure but that must be too hard for BOM.

Mostly works as advertised. Provides good temperature, wind and rain forecasts. One thing that's a little weird is that it always shows 0% chance of rain in the hourly forecast, even when the written forecast says there will definitely be rain. It used to show this data but I've noticed it's been gone for the last few months. (Checked on multiple Android devices)

It still doesn't reliably download the rain radar images. So you check the app before going for a walk, see what appears to be a clear day, go for a walk and get caught in a downpour. There is no way to know it's failed to download or it really is a clear day, and there is no refresh button. So the recourse is to kill the app and restart, so it's forced to reload. Even then you can't be sure, so if it's a gloomy day outside it's best to do the kill and restart jig a few times.

What’s new

This release introduces warnings on the map. You can now see a wide range of active warnings and the areas they apply to. Tap on the map to get warning details. We've also fixed some bugs including a fix for crashes on Android 6 & 7 devices.