Displaying items by tag: Bureau of Meteorology

The BOM Weather app has been updated to make rainfall forecasts easier to understand.

The Bureau of Meteorology has introduced push notifications on its BOM Weather app to provide more targeted advice to communities during severe weather.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology says it has fixed the issues that prevented users of the textmode browser lynx from accessing its website.

The Bureau of Meteorology has started blocking the text browsers lynx and w3m from accessing its website, preventing many sight-impaired readers from using the site.

The Facebook pages of the Bureau of Meteorology and numerous government organisations are among those that cannot be viewed after the social media firm instituted a ban on Australian publishers and people from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.

Specialist fibre and network solutions provider Vocus claims it has reached a new milestone in the growth of its enterprise business as the top provider of NBN Enterprise Ethernet services.

Based in Canberra, Australia's newest supercomputer named Gadi has placesd 25th in the world in the latest Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers after achieving impressive benchmark results.

The Vocus Group has signed a $15.695 million deal with the Bureau of Meteorology, meaning that its existing arrangement with the agency is more or less doubled.

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has inked a contract with IT solutions provider Unisys to design, build and manage new secure cloud infrastructure and an upgraded wide area network to better support current services and indirectly provide a “modern operating environment”.

Staff at the Bureau of Meteorology have made their dissatisfaction with their pay known – and chosen the daily weather forecasts to inform the public about the issue.

The face of disgraced American television star Roseanne Barr suddenly appeared in all its glory in the most unlikely of places on Thursday: as a radar image on the website of the Bureau of Meteorology.

An intrusion into the Bureau of Meteorology's network last year was not half as "massive" as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation tried to make it out to be.

A national climate research centre is to be established in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart to focus on climate modelling and projections for Australia.

Around the beginning of December, there were reports, mostly attributed to nameless sources, that the supercomputer at the Bureau of Meteorology had been the target of an intrusion.

More accurate and more frequent weather forecasts will now be delivered by the Bureau of Meteorology with the bureau now given access to the Himawari-8 satellite, the most advanced dedicated weather satellite in the world.

Australia's government-run weather experts the Bureau of Meterology will purchase a new supercomputer and datacentre following a datalink upgrade, boosting speeds from 80 gigabits per second to 200.

In 2011 the Bureau of Meteorology attracted more than 3.3 billion page views – more than some porn sites. Not surprisingly the Government wants its cut of the digital dollar.

With water storage levels being a common topic of conversation as parts of Australia suffer from drought, the Bureau of Meteorology's official Water Storage iPhone application is now available for free download at the iTunes App Store.

Australian and U.S. scientists have concluded that the winds over the Southern Ocean hold the key to how its surface waters help to transfer heat and carbon dioxide between the deeper waters and the atmosphere in the Southern Hemisphere.

Today the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO published a snapshot of the state of climate change in Australia.