About The Weather Chaser: Independent Australian weather since 2001
Run by John and Kath, a small independent family business based in Melbourne. We've been tracking the Australian sky since 2001.
The site began in 2001 as a personal hobby, somewhere to keep the radar loops and station readings we kept finding ourselves wanting to look back at. By 2005 it was public at theweatherchaser.com. It's been running ever since, growing one feature at a time.
Live weather data that's clear and fast to read, and access and analysis of the historical record that sits behind it.
The Bureau of Meteorology publishes most of what powers Australian weather coverage and does an enormous amount with public funding. We don't try to compete with that. What we do try to do is make their data, and other public datasets, easier to scroll through, compare, and dig into when you need to look back, which is the part that motivated this site in the first place.
We're not part of any larger company. No corporate owner, no investors. The site runs on a mix of ads, subscription options, and custom rainfall estimation. This keeps the lights on without anyone leaning on what we do or how we do it.
Most of what you see here starts with the Australian BoM: radar, satellite, observations, forecasts and warnings. We also pull from the WA DPIRD network, and a few other international forecast models like GFS and ECMWF.
Questions, corrections, or just want to say hi? Drop us a line via contact. The site also works as an installable app on phones and desktops: install instructions.
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