Final round of regular updates for 2025 delivers improvements for emergency management
Issued: 18 December 2025
Delivering improvements
The Bureau has released the latest round of updates to its new website, www.bom.gov.au.
This release features further fine-tuning of the rain radar and weather map, warnings text and the addition of fire behaviour indices to fire weather district forecast tables.
Today's update follows changes made last week to make the weather map easier to customise, and expand the 'day so far' highlights for states, territories, districts and capital cities.
This is part of an ongoing program of regular updates to ensure the website meets community and business needs.
Rain radar and weather map
In response to feedback, we have:
- zoomed in the weather map to mainland Australia, when you land on the Rain radar and weather maps page
- made improvements to the rain radar's image processing time, to help you see the most recent rain radar images
- updated the rain radar time slider to display the day, date and time of the observation.
Supporting safety
This release includes more refinements to warnings and other public safety information:
- Fire danger ratings tables on state and territory pages now include the forecast fire behaviour index.
- Tropical Cyclone Advice and Severe Thunderstorm Warnings now include the priority broadcast statement and Standard Emergency Warning Signal text for our media and emergency management partners.