Survey Questionnaire

1. What types of weather related information have you used in the past month to make decisions based on or influenced by the weather?

2. How do you use weather information?

If work related, please state industry.

3. Does the weather information you access to make weather based decisions meet your requirements?

In what way does the weather information not meet your requirements?

4. In general, how far ahead of making a weather based decision would you like the information to be available?

5. In general, how often would you like the weather information updated?

6. How frequently do you access or receive weather information when making a weather based decision?

7. Is weather information available in time to meet your needs?

8. What hour of the day are you most likely to access weather information?

The following questions related to forecast accuracy can be answered on a 5-point scale where 1 = always accurate and 5 = always inaccurate. 

9. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate are weather forecast and warnings provide by the Bureau? 

10. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think weather forecasts and warnings for the next 24 hours have been over the past month?

11. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think two to four-day forecasts have been over the past month?

12. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think rainfall forecasts have been over the past month?

13. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think maximum temperature forecasts have been over the past month?

14. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think minimum temperature forecasts have been over the past month?

15. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think forecasts for cloud or sunshine have been over the past month?

16. On a scale of 1 to 5, how accurate do you think wind forecasts have been over the past month?

17. Generally, do you think that the accuracy of weather forecasts and warnings are getting more accurate, less accurate or haven't changed over the past few years?  

18. Thinking about the different ways in which people can receive or access weather information, which of the following media have you used over the past month to get weather information?

19. Overall, thinking about all aspects of weather information, how satisfied are you with the information you receive from the Weather Bureau through the different sources you use?