Take any sequence from an Australian BoM weather radar and download the whole thing in one zip: an MP4 video, an animated GIF, every individual frame, geo-referenced source images and a ready-to-open QGIS project. Pick the radar, pick the timeframe, and the pack is built for you on the spot.
One zip with everything, so you can hand it to a colleague, drop it in a report, or open it in your GIS tools without any further processing.
The full sequence rendered as a video with radar name, range and per-frame local and UTC timestamps. Frame rate is selectable from 1 to 60 fps when you create the pack.
The same sequence as a looping animated GIF, ready to embed in a page, presentation or chat where video is awkward.
Every frame as a separate image with the timestamp on it, for stepping through an event or pulling out the single moment that matters.
The transparent radar data for each frame with geo-referencing sidecar files, ready to load into QGIS, ArcGIS or other GIS tools as positioned layers.
A ready-to-open QGIS project (.qgz) with every frame configured as a time-enabled layer, so the temporal controller steps through the event as soon as you open it.
Radar location, range, bounding box, frame count and date range as both JSON and plain text, so the pack documents itself.
Every pack includes a QGIS project alongside the imagery. Unzip the pack, open the .qgz in QGIS (free and open source), and the radar frames are already loaded as time-enabled layers positioned over the map: scrub through the event with the temporal controller, overlay your own layers such as catchments, assets or survey data, and export whatever views you need.
You can download a QGIS sample (3 MB) from a Melbourne rainfall event in April 2024 to try it before creating a pack of your own. The sample pack above was created before the QGIS project was bundled in, so the two samples together show everything a new pack contains.
Creating packs requires a Pro subscription. Packs are priced by the length of the sequence, from $80 including GST for up to one day of radar data, with the exact price shown before you confirm. If you need packs regularly or in bulk, contact us about a data subscription.
Every BoM radar in Australia, with archive coverage for many radars back to 2005. There are some gaps from radar and network outages over the years; the radar player shows you exactly what's available before you create a pack.
Insurers and assessors reconstructing an event, engineers and consultants documenting site conditions, researchers and students working with real radar data, and weather enthusiasts keeping a record of a memorable storm.
Data packs give you the radar imagery. If you need estimated rainfall in millimetres at specific locations or over a catchment, our rainfall estimation service combines radar with rain gauges to produce gauge-corrected rainfall time-series, grids and maps.
We can also produce higher-resolution HD packs, rainfall conversions and other custom outputs. Get in touch with what you're after.
The video and GIF show both radar-local and UTC time on every frame. Filenames and timestamps on the individual frames are in UTC.
Any product you can view in the radar player: rain rate at all available ranges, doppler wind, and accumulated rainfall.
No. QGIS is free, open-source software available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Download it from qgis.org, unzip your pack, and open the .qgz file.
By the length of the sequence: from $80 including GST for up to one day of radar data, increasing gradually for longer sequences. The exact price is always shown before you confirm, and you'll be emailed a payment confirmation.
Many radars have coverage back to 2005, though availability varies by site and there are some gaps from outages. If you need a sequence from earlier than what's shown in the player, contact us and we'll check what we can recover.
Download a real pack and the QGIS sample to see exactly what you get.
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