BOM Weather

BOM Weather - the Bureau of Meteorology's official weather app

Price
In-App PurchaseNo
Shows AdsNo
LaunchedOct 04, 2016
Store Categories
Applications|Weather

Total Ratings

Worldwide

140K
5 star
97K
4 star
30K
3 star
8.5K
2 star
2.3K
1 star
3.9K

Description

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

Screenshots

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Version History

Releasing updates every 3 days on average. Last update 108 days ago.

6.10.2Dec 12, 2024

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.

6.10.1Dec 09, 2024

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.

6.9.1Aug 14, 2024

This release fixes a bug that gave repeated internet connection messages. It also fixes a widget bug affecting Android 6 and 7 devices.

6.9.0Jul 22, 2024

Introduces offline mode and hourly dew point temperature forecasts. Offline mode lets you see recently-viewed data when you don't have internet. Dew point temperature is a guide to humidity. This release also fixes accessibility and other bugs.

6.8.2Apr 29, 2024

This release enables coastal hazard warnings and notifications. They alert you to dangerous surf and abnormally high tides. You're already subscribed if you get our severe weather warnings. You can opt out if coastal hazards don't matter to you.

6.8.0Feb 13, 2024

This release improves Use my current location, navigation and the map. You'll see Map instead of Rain in the bottom menu. We've made it easier to select layers to show on the map, and confirm your selection in a heading above the map legend. You can now access the main menu from the Warnings screen.

6.7.1Nov 08, 2023

Fixes a bug that gave some customers repeated introduction to new app features. There's also a new message that can appear at the bottom of the app screen. It means we can alert you to issues or news – for example, outages.

6.6.0Aug 21, 2023

This release brings your wind speed and dark/light mode options into a new Settings screen. It also has fixes for some 'location not found' issues and radar crashes affecting a small number of users.

6.5.2Jul 26, 2023

This update fixes some app crashes when you view the radar. It also gives you the latest recorded highs and lows, including temperature, wind gusts and total rain – see  Past. And we've added clear statements about how the app and widget use your location information, so you can make informed choices.

6.3.0May 02, 2023

This update delivers on customer requests to get notifications for up to 3 locations and see rain as a range in the 7-day forecast. We've also made hourly and daily rain information consistent, fixed bugs and improved performance.

6.2.0Feb 10, 2023

This update gives you hourly humidity forecasts and fixes the rain map slider. Tides information is easier to find. Also delivers bug fixes, styling updates and performance improvements.

6.1.0Dec 06, 2022

This release introduces rain forecast and other changes to the rain radar map. Users can now seamlessly view:
- 90 minutes observed (past) rainfall
- 90 minutes forecast (future) rainfall
Other radar map changes:
- 'Radar' label in the bottom navigation renamed to 'Rain'
- slightly darker base map for land and sea
- new slider to control the rain animation playback
- the addition of rainfall legend, presented in mm/hr
- radar outage message's containing more detail

5.4.0Oct 03, 2022

This release includes:
- new heatwave warning and push notification option
- performance improvements

5.3.0Oct 03, 2022

In this release you will find:
- updated colours used for the new national Fire Danger Ratings System
- fix for flood watch formatting
- fix to address an issue with the 'use my location' functionality

5.2.0Aug 22, 2022

Thanks for your feedback. We keep working hard to introduce new features and fix any bugs in the app.

In this release you will notice:
* new past weather screen showing 72 hours of temperature, wind and rain observations
* update to the naming of bottom navigation items - replacing "Weather" with "Home" and adding "Past" for the past weather screen
* customer satisfaction popup (displayed at various times as you use the app)

5.1.0Aug 22, 2022

This release includes:
- dark mode option allowing user to set display appearance or use device's system settings
- rainfall presentation update in the today, hourly and daily forecast sections
- new bottom navigation with quick links to weather, radar and warnings screens
- various bug fixes

5.0.7May 23, 2022

This release includes:
- various bug fixes including a fix for crash happening during startup on some devices
- warning push notifications for one location including - Fire Weather, Flood, Severe Thunderstorm, Severe Weather, Tropical Cyclone and Tsunami
- onboarding page for new features
- updated terms and conditions acceptance page

5.0.5May 10, 2022

This release includes:
- warning push notifications for one location including - Fire Weather, Flood, Severe Thunderstorm, Severe Weather, Tropical Cyclone and Tsunami
- onboarding page for new features
- updated terms and conditions acceptance page
- various bug fixes

4.8.16Mar 01, 2022

This release include bug fixes and performance improvements.

4.6.22Dec 01, 2021

- bug fix to better identify when the device is offline

4.6.19Nov 10, 2021

This release includes:
- updated interaction between different screens within the app
- refined menu layout
- improved error handling when there is no internet connection
- UV data now shows values past 11 and sun protection "not required" wording updated
- simplified feedback form
- general usability and performance improvements

4.4.14Apr 29, 2021

This release includes:
- Landscape mode on mobile devices
- Radar outage notice
- Retention of user preferences between sessions for items such as knots & km/h and radar coverage toggle
- Location detection fixes
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements

4.1.0Jan 14, 2021

This major release includes marine data for those locations close to water to help you plan your coastal and local waters activities, plus moon phases and some bug fixes and performance improvements.

In this release:
- Moon phase
- Hourly wind gust (in km and knots – tap to change)
- Three-hourly total wave height
- Daily waters forecast, including tides times
- Enhanced last update data, including observation time and location

3.12.0Dec 20, 2020

In this release:
- update to refresh time of state warnings list
- removed "Moon" label as data was not ready to be displayed
- bug fixes and performance improvements

3.8.0Nov 25, 2020

Changes in this release include:
- improved performance of the hourly forecast table
- fixed bug causing app to crash on Galaxy S5 phones
- update to Android permissions stopping widget from updating
- update to privacy policy noting use of location

3.5.0Nov 11, 2020

Changes in this release include:
- radar coverage toggle added to the radar map so users can see optimal coverage area
- pull down to refresh introduced
- usability improvement for warnings detail page to show arrows for horizontal scrolling
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- accessibility fixes on the onboarding screen and feedback page

3.1.4Nov 11, 2020

Changes in this release include:
- various bug fixes, accessibility, and performance improvements
- new choice boxes in the hourly section for Temperature & rain and Wind
- state based warnings accessed from the Warnings menu item
- short term radar outage notifications shown in the radar
- improved unsave/remove favourite functionality
- build number is included for support in the About page
- only available on Android 5 and greater
- minimum GL version updated to open up to more devices

3.1.3Aug 25, 2020

- New hourly feels like data
- Widget "use my location" improvements and config screen accessibility fixes
- Fix to stop observation content being cut-off
- General performance improvements and bug fixes

3.1.2Jul 28, 2020

Hi Beta testers,

Some more tweaks and improvements to the app including:

- Various performance improvements and bug fixes
- Fix a bug that caused menu flashing when the app loads
- Widget performance and user experience uplift

3.0.1Jun 25, 2020

3.0.1 hotfix:
- Fixes a crash at startup on some MediaTek-based devices (such as the Oppo AX5s)
- General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

3.0.0 release:
New design elements:
- New tablet design
- Accessible design
- Pan and zoom rain radar
- 'Weather mood' background

2.2.0Jun 16, 2020

- Minor bug fixes including improvements to the display of radar outage notifications

2.1.3Jan 13, 2019

2.1.2Dec 12, 2018

2.0.0Dec 04, 2017

1.7.0Oct 19, 2016

- Added the ability to exit the app using the back button
- Improved navigation between weather and radar
- Improved start-up time
- Minor bug fixes

LaunchedOct 04, 2016

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