Web guide to Aussie Weather

So why worry about the weather for your upcoming trip to Australia?

Internet-equipped transtasman travellers now have a website they can use to plan their vacation around, subject to the usual vagaries of a weather system that never really does exactly what it is supposed to.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is now online, offering comprehensive short-term forecasts and also seasonal conditions, storm warnings and a quick course in meteorological language to help you understand it all.

Want to find out what life will be like for your springtime wildflower tour of Western Australia? Click climate information, choose WA and cruise through the state district by district, checking not only the forecasts but the conditions normally experienced for both the present season and the one ahead.

The same quality of information is supplied for fishing, sailing or surfing off Queensland, with winds, tides and four-day coastal forecasts given.

Extremes and norms: they're all there, supported by maps, charts and satellite images.

For anyone in Sydney during the 2000 Games, there is a special page for Olympic weather offering forecasts - immediate and four-day - climate information, tides and currents on Sydney Harbour and coastal waters, and the latest satellite images.

During the Games the information and forecasts will be even more specific.

And if you think really long-term about your holidays, you can always check out the latest on climate change.
The only thing the website doesn't take into account is Murphy's Law.

Australian Bureau of Meteorology