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, rain notifications 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, UV, humidity, dew point, wind, gust and rain for the next 72 hours
- 7-day forecast
- Total wave height and direction (for relevant locations)
- Sunrise and sunset times, moon phases
- 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

Rain and warning notifications
- Rain and warning notifications for up to 3 locations around Australia
- Warning notifications include coastal hazards, fire weather, flood warnings and watches, 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.

Diminished after update. The last update, "added 3 new widgets", actually meant, "replaced existing widgets with these new ones", and as a result, the useful, to me at least, "4×1" widget was removed. I had this in a stack with 2 other 4×1 widgets, but that is not an option anymore. I don't want a widget that requires so much vertical space, so the App is less useful than before. Was my preferred weather App, now time to find another.

As others have pointed out, the new version since the "upgrade" is garbage. radar maps don't load anymore, calls the play integrity API now for some unknown reason, and pulls in third party mapbox dependency. the widgets are useless because they don't auto update. whoever is responsible for this trash should be fired. bring back the old app, it was 100x better and just worked.

What's new

In this release, rain notifications and hourly UV forecasts are now available. You can get notified when rain is approaching, for up to 3 locations. It’s also easier to swap between rain and warnings on the map.