Three new ways to access rainfall outlooks

The Bureau of Meteorology has launched three additional 3-month rainfall outlook products. The products give new insights into the chance of rainfall for the coming season.

The products are:

• Maps showing the rainfall amount that has a 25, 50 and 75% chance of falling over the coming season.
• Maps showing the chance of different amounts of rainfall falling, from 10 to 700 mm.
• Tables showing the chance of various rainfall amounts for more than 260 towns across Australia.

The products were developed after a survey of almost 500 farmers and rural advisers who described what they wanted from a climate service. The survey was run by Managing Climate Variability in conjunction with the Bureau of Meteorology.

The 260 towns with detailed outlook information were chosen to give, as much as possible, an even geographic spread across and between rainfall districts. Each town also has at least 30 years of data.

More products will be launched later in the year.

For more information, visit www.bom.gov.au/watl.