Rainfall forecasts via FTP

The Water and the Land computer generated rainfall forecasts are also freely available on the Bureau's FTP site under the numerical prediction directory. The forecasts are available as gridded data (netCDF format) and images.

NetCDF files

For example:
IDYPME01.pme.totl.200608011200.nc,
and
IDYPME02.pme.prob.200608011200.nc
where the time is in UTC

What is NetCDF? See Unidata.

Image files

The image files are available for the national and state maps.