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@mcgr1m3 You can freely access the BOM radar images here: ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/radar/

However, this is the copyright statement:
All products available via the anonymous FTP service are subject to the default terms of the Bureau's copyright notice: you may download, use and copy that material for personal use, or use within your organisation but you may not supply that material to any other person or use it for any commercial purpose. Users intending to publish Bureau data should do so as Registered Users.

I would say using the data on Windy would classify as "publishing". Here's where the fees to become a registered user are: http://www.bom.gov.au/other/charges.shtml

Here's a link to some sample data from the different radar packages (just match up the IDR number from the fees page: ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/sample/catalogue/Radar/
I'm not sure how much coverage of the country that is but there is also other options on that fees page.

Volumetric radar user manual:
http://reg.bom.gov.au/catalogue/radar_data_2017.pdf

Looks like the registered user costs are:
Service establishment: $1,025 (one-time)
FTP Access: $985 (per year)
1x radar package: $1,690.00 (per year)

+$345 if you were to change your service.

I'd be so excited to see weather radar on windy! I hope the people at the BOM are watching this thread. :D

Hi Mezza, windy.com already has the "Weather Radar" feature, scroll to the bottom of the Show/add more layers menu It's the 2nd from the bottom on a computer web browser.

I doesn't include Australia and depending on copyright, etc the raw (BOM) images are available to the public/non-commercial use.

Don't you think this would be useful? It wont restrict your research/data accuracy in any way.

I have a feature request. The Australia BoM provides their radar images and other data for non comercial use here: http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/anon-ftp.shtml

Is it possible that the radar images (and other data) could be incorporated similar to the USA, South Korea, PR, etc?