The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's upgraded weather stations application,
provides timely relevant and local weather data.
To assist growers and regional communities to make more informed decisions.
This data includes air temperature humidity rainfall wind speed wind direction and solar radiation.
As well as additional information such as spraying conditions and evapotranspiration
in this video we will provide an overview of the weather station application.
Starting in the top left corner you can access the main menu navigation
with some general information about the site.
Clicking home will return you back to the map screen.
A utility menu can be accessed in the top right corner of the page where you
can change the theme to dark mode.
Discover what's new and a feedback link is provided
where you may email us with comments or suggestions.
The page can also be expanded by clicking on this arrow to remove the header section.
You can also toggle the map controls panel and expand the map to full screen.
This provides even more screen real estate which can be extremely useful
for laptops and mobile devices.
Accessing a specific weather station can be done in three different ways.
Firstly in the top right corner clicking on the all stations list button and selecting a station
will take you to the station's dashboard.
Secondly entering text in the search field will filter station names
and once clicked will be displayed on the map
and thirdly zooming in on the map and
clicking on a station will also provide access to weather stations summary data.
Using the map view you are able to select weather variables and identify
weather patterns across the state for example selecting temperature in the
weather variables list brings up a colour legend with a temperature scale
selecting show values at the bottom of the list displays the current
temperatures for each station clicking a temperature value in the legend filters
the map to show only stations within that range.
Once you've selected a station you can now view it's dashboard.
This shows the most important weather station data on a single page.
Clicking on the information icon will show supporting information relevant to each section.
Clicking on the time interval buttons will display detailed datasets.
These sets can be exported to a CSV file.
Clicking on the charts button displays a series of charts that can also be saved as images.
Clicking on the close button will return you to the dashboard
and clicking the back button will return you to your previous position on the map.
Toggling a radar zooms the map into that region and shows radar imagery
Clicking the reset buttons restores the map to its default view.
Visit the site now at weather.agric.wa.gov.au