The Australian Wine Research Institute

Weather and forecasting tools

• Access weather information from the BOM on your smart phone – Apple and Google Play
• ACORN SAT – Australian Daily Temperature Data
• AWAP – Australian Water Availability Project and Australian rainfall maps
• BOM ENSO Forecast
  • Seasonal indication of El Nino or La Nina events
• BOM Meteye
  • a 7-day forecast across Australia on a 3-6 km map grid. Forecasts are updated twice per day during the early morning and late afternoon. Multi-week to seasonal forecast tools (including temperature, rainfall or extreme temperatures) can now also be trialled through http://poama.bom.gov.au
• Climate change – trends and extremes
• BOM frost potential maps
  • Designed for agriculture, maps show forecast low temperature thresholds for various locations across Australia. The maps are updated each day and show forecasts for the next 48 hours
• BOM heatwave services
  • Heatwave knowledge centre and forecast maps
• Climate atlas
  • Climate projections for Australia’s wine regions. Details information about how the climate may change in the near, mid and long-term time horizons (out to 2100)
• Himawari-8 satellite
  • near real-time imagery allows you to zoom in to 0.5-2 km resolution, with new colour images uploaded every ten minutes. This allows you to see cyclones, storm events, fog, volcanic ash and perhaps bushfire plumes, potentially giving an indication if your vineyard has been exposed to smoke
• NASA fire information for resource management system (FIRMS) – active fire event locations
• Seasonal outlooks
  • Weekly, monthly and seasonal outlooks
• Sentinel bushfire hotspots live interactive map

Climate education

• BOM state of the climate report
• The critical decade – climate science, risks and responses (Climate Commission report, 2013)
• Wine Australia’s environment and climate resources
• Risk Management and El Niño and La Niña
• Australia’s climate change strategies