FORECAST AUSTRALIA
The world's best global models, drawn over Australia at the resolution they were actually computed at.
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FREE · NO ACCOUNT · ECMWF & MET OFFICE DATAModel Explorer
ECMWF's operational deterministic model — the most accurate global forecast there is — on a 0.1 degree grid rather than the 0.25 degree open data most public sites draw. Temperature, rain, wind, gusts, cloud, CAPE and more, with a value under every pixel.
ECMWF AIFS
ECMWF's machine-learning forecast, run operationally alongside HRES and out to fifteen days. Drawn in the same colours on the same framing, so the two can be read against each other at the same valid instant rather than side by side in different units.
Met Office Global
The global configuration of the Unified Model at about 10 km — a genuinely independent second opinion, sharing neither ECMWF's assimilation nor its physics. Includes 850 hPa temperature, 500 hPa heights and the jet.
Ocean Waves
Significant wave height, period and direction from the Met Office global wave model. Australia faces the longest uninterrupted swell fetch on earth across the Southern Ocean, and every capital but one is a port — this is not a marine footnote.
Why this site exists
Native resolution, not a crop
Every model here is global and every raster is rendered at full model width, so Australia is sampled at the 0.1 degrees HRES actually computed — the same 420 grid columns the model has across the continent — rather than being upscaled from somebody's regional cut-out.
Absolute colour scales
Every ramp is pinned to real values — 0 °C is always the same colour, a 100 km/h gust always announces itself — so a loop shows the weather changing, never the palette re-fitting itself. And every pixel can be read back: hover anywhere for the number.
Four models, one instrument
Flip HRES against AIFS against the Met Office at the same valid instant and any difference on screen is a real disagreement between the models. Same colours, same framing, same probe — pointed at four forecasts.
Part of a network
Forecast Australia is the Australian member of a family of model sites: Forecast Euro reads ECMWF, Forecast Britain reads the Met Office suite, Forecast Canada reads the MSC suite, and weather.city covers places rather than models.