Code: Daily Weather Observations from Australian BOM

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) http://www.bom.gov.au provides a number of public data services to obtain climate and past weather details, and many other data services and reports pertaining to all kinds of weather related data.

Using the BOM’s weather station directory http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/stations/ a user can specify a location, coordinates, state/territory or a weather station number, the weather data type they wish to obtain and download a compressed data file containing all recorded observations since the site started its operation, or narrow it down by a date range. This method requires processing of large number of files and is limited to providing readings for one type of weather data at a time, such as maximum temperature or rainfall.

Another services to obtain data from BOM is the Daily Weather Observations (DWO) services http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/index.shtml, which is limited to last 14 months for any given weather station. This method however provides a range of observation types all in one download.

In this post I will describe a process for obtaining DWO for a set of weather stations.

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