#Australien erlebte den nassesten Sommer seit 2016-17 und zugleich den achtheißesten seit Beginn der Messungen.

Laut #BureauOfMeteorology lag der #Niederschlag 32 Prozent über dem Durchschnitt, in #Südaustralia im Februar sogar 356 Prozent. Auf extreme #Hitzewellen mit bis zu 50 Grad folgten #Starkregen #und Überschwemmungen.

Neun der zehn heißesten Sommer traten seit 2012 auf. Fachleute verweisen auf zunehmende #Wetterextreme im Zuge des #Klimawandel.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/03/australia-summer-extreme-weather-wettest-hottest-records

#climatechange

The Australian Bureau of The Sky IS FALLING are doing their seemingly typical flooding of the app with Severe Thunderstorm Warnings, and the storm absolutely didn't eventuate in my little corner of the world.

BUT …

I did notice something!
Something missing!

For as long as I can remember, every Severe Warning has included:
1) "Avoid using the phone", and
2) phone numbers to call

Every time I've seen the phone warning, I've contacted the BOM and asked for clarification:
Is it just a leftover from when landlines were the only phoned?
Does it apply to mobile phones?

I never, ever received any response to any of my enquiries😢, but the current warning text has been updated, and the "Avoid using the phone" is gone!🎉

#BOM #BureauOfMeteorology #bureau

Originally budgeted for 4 million AUD (~2M EUR), Australia's new botched #BureauOfMeteorology site ballooned into 100M AUD (~50M EUR).

I'd love to hear the story behind what must be one of the most expensive #Drupal sites ever.

As do our Aussie tax paying downunderlings.

Update 1:
80% of the budget went to #Accenture. I am Jack's shocked face.

Update 2:
Most if was used to "secure their systems" following a cyber attack. So why is it counted towards the build cost?

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/premium-prices-for-a-downgrade-96-5-million-bom-website-savaged-20251126-p5niis.html

Fuck!

Even *I* could have could have come up with a shitty-but-less-shitty website for 90-odd million dollars, and I move heavy things for a living...

#BOM #BureauOfMeteorology

Cost of BoM’s website revamp revealed after deluge of public criticism

Public-facing site cost about $86m as the Bureau of Meteorology apologises for the handling of the redesign launch

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/31/cost-of-boms-website-revamp-revealed-after-deluge-of-public-criticism

This is absolutely criminal

#News #Australia #Weather #BureauofMeteorology #BOM

Does anyone know how to find the Delta-T (wet-bulb temperature depression) on the new #BoM website? You used to be able to just click the little button below the city forecast to get to it, but now I can't find it at all.

#Australia #BureauOfMeteorology

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology public FTP server, part 0: overview

Here at Ice Moon Prison, we’ve been talking about the weather for years. We’ve always used the free data supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology. This is the first in a series of posts outlining what data can be found on the BOM’s FTP server.

The Bureau of Meteorology is an Australian federal government agency, supplying Australian individuals and organizations with observations, forecasts, and warnings. Mostly for a fee, which runs to 4 to 5 figures depending on the data being used, but a subset of the data can be had for free, with strings attached.

The data is on the server ftp.bom.gov.au and can be accessed over the venerable anonymous File Transfer Protocol. In years past, that link would open in your browser, but as anonymous FTP gave way to HTTP, browser support for FTP was dropped, so you may have to experiment with other options to access the files.

The BOM’s own documentation on the anonymous FTP data is sparse and inconsistent. You could spend fruitless hours exploring the uncharted, cryptic directories. I certainly did. So I’ve decided to write these blog posts and save you time getting productive.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• An FTP client. Windows and MacOS have clients built into their file browser (File Explorer and Finder, respectively). You can also use a dedicated client like FileZilla. If you’re interested in automating or scripting, you’re almost certainly going to want to use curl.
• A shapefile viewer. This is optional, but a map overlay display tool like QGIS will help you to visualize which BOM products apply to a particular part of Australia. If you skip this, you can interactively explore the BOM’s website to find which products have the information you need.
• An XML processor. Most of the BOM’s textual products come in valid XML, and if you want to manipulate these, you’d best come to terms with a processor like Saxon-HE or libxml2. XSLT, XPath, and to a lesser extent SAX parsing, will make this a breeze. Please don’t hurt yourself by trying to parse XML with regular expressions.

Future posts in this series will tentatively cover the following topics:

#BOM #BureauOfMeteorology