The Weather Chaser for Hydrology

Reliable rainfall inputs and the records around them. Gauge-corrected radar rainfall for model calibration and event studies, plus river heights, rain gauge records and the radar archive to see how each event actually unfolded.

How Hydrology Teams Use It

Rainfall Inputs for Flood Models

Our rainfall estimation service produces gauge-corrected radar rainfall for an event: point time-series, catchment area-averages weighted by cell overlap, and per-timestep NetCDF grids ready for hydraulic modelling tools.

River Heights and Rain Gauges

Live and historical river height and rainfall records with downloads, drawing on BoM stations, Water Data Online and state river-rain networks.

Event Playback

The radar archive lets you replay a storm cell by cell, which is often the quickest way to understand timing, movement and structure before modelling it.

Scoping Before You Commission

Weather Rewind shows which gauges recorded rainfall for a date range and area, so you can check data coverage before commissioning a full estimation.

What You Get with Pro

The full site, without limits or ads, licensed for business and government use.

Full radar archive: SD imagery from 2010, HD from 2020
Live weather map covering the last week at 5-minute intervals
HD satellite imagery
Weather station observations across Australia, with downloads
River height and rain gauge data, with downloads
The latest BoM forecasts
Completely ad free
Business and government use permitted
Historical custom radar requests

Tuned for Hydrology

Rainfall Estimation

The core service for flood and catchment work: bias-corrected against available gauges, optimised and validated per event.

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Weather Rewind

Self-serve gauge browser for a selected date range and area, with CSV, ZIP and GeoJSON downloads.

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Organisation Accounts

Whole-team access to the archives and data downloads, from $2,700 per year for up to 20 users.

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Rainfall for a Specific Event

Need gauge-corrected rainfall for a calibration or design event? We build it per event, validated against available gauges: point time-series, catchment area-averages weighted by cell overlap, and per-timestep NetCDF grids for your hydraulic models.

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Pricing

Pro

$60/mo
or $600/yr, two months free · inc. GST
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Organisations

from $2,700/yr
up to 20 users · one invoice · manual invoicing available
About organisation accounts

Personal subscriptions are for individual, non-commercial use. If you are using the site for work, a Pro or Organisation subscription is the right fit.

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  • Last 4 hours of data on the live weather map (satellite and radar)
  • Last 4 hours of SD and HD radar imagery
  • Last 4 days of AWS, rain gauge and river height observations
  • Automatic update of live radar and observation data
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