BOM Weather

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Description of App

BOM Weather is the Bureau of Meteorology's weather app, giving you the most accurate weather information at your fingertips.

The BOM Weather app includes:

Current and today’s conditions

- Temperature

- Weather icon

- 'Feels like’ temperature

- Min/Max

- Possible rainfall range

- Current weather description

- Wind (in km/h OR knots – tap to change) and wind gust

- Humidity

- Rain since 9 am

Forecasts

- 1-hourly forecast for 72 hours including temperature, rain, humidity, wind direction and gust, and speed (in km/h OR knots)

- 7-day forecast including temperature, text weather summary, fire danger rating, UV Index and sun protection 4 days ahead, sunrise/sunset and moon phases

- Waters forecast including wind, seas, swell, and tides. Plus the summary for the days ahead

Past Weather

- 72 hours of temperature, rain and wind observations

Warnings

- Weather warnings for your current location

- Warning notifications for up to 3 locations – select from tropical cyclone, fire weather, flood, tsunami, severe weather, severe thunderstorm and heatwave

Radar

- 90 minutes observed (past) and 90 minutes forecast (future) rainfall

- Pan and zoom rain radar map

- Your location marked on radar map

- Radar coverage layer

Location

- Search for any location in Australia

- Save your favourite locations

- ‘Move with me’ (current location)

Other features

- Weather mood background and night-time mode

- Quick access to rain radar

- Enhanced metadata to give you the location of the observations and the forecast last updated times

- Accessible design that allows you to resize the font in your device settings

- View in landscape or portrait mode (device rotation)

- Dark mode

Version

6.3.0

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

16.4.1 (a)

Accessibility Comments

Very accessible.

There are a few visual features in the app that are not accessible, but that's to be expected with a weather app.

A screen in the app includes information about how to obtain accessibility support.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Developer's Twitter Username

@BOM_au

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by TJT 2001 1 year 6 months ago

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Comments

By Peter Holdstock on Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 12:04

Unfortunately it’s only seems to cover Australian weather This doesn’t seem to cover the UK and most of the towns I’ve entered have only shown Australian results.

By Dominic on Sunday, May 21, 2023 - 12:04

The bureau of meteorology, only shows because it’s only basically for Australian users.
Sorry for the inconvenience.