Weather stations and radar

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's (DPIRD) network of automatic weather stations and radars throughout the state provide timely, relevant and local weather data to assist growers and regional communities make more-informed decisions.

The station data includes air temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed and direction, with most stations also measuring incoming solar radiation to calculate evaporation.

The Doppler radars provide estimated rainfall.

See Also

Rainfall to date tool for Western Australia [1]
Soil water tool [2]
Extreme weather events tool [3]
Web APIs [4]

Documents

australiasvariablerainfall_jan-dec WA 2018 [5]
australiasvariablerainfall_may-oct WA 2018 [6]

Links

Bureau of Meteorology weather stations in WA [7]
Bureau of Meteorology Agricultural Observations Bulletin - daily [8]

Links
[1] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-weather/rainfall-date-tool-western-australia
[2] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-weather/soil-water-tool
[3] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-weather/extreme-weather-events-tool
[4] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/web-apis
[5] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/australiasvariablerainfall_jan-dec%20WA%202018.pdf
[6] https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/sites/gateway/files/australiasvariablerainfall_may-oct%20WA%202018.pdf
[7] http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml
[8] http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW65176.shtml

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