get_precis_forecast function

Get a BOM Daily Précis Forecast

Fetch nicely formatted daily précis forecast from the BOM , which contains seven-day town forecasts for a specified state or territory. Ported from bomrang.

get_precis_forecast(state = "AUS")

Arguments

• state: Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via base::agrep() is done. Defaults to AUS

  returning all state bulletins, see Details for more.

Returns

A data.table::data.table() of an Australia BOM précis seven day forecasts for BOM selected towns.

Details

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using 'AUS'.

• AUS: Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT
• ACT: Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
• NSW: New South Wales
• NT: Northern Territory
• QLD: Queensland
• SA: South Australia
• TAS: Tasmania
• VIC: Victoria
• WA: Western Australia

Examples

# get the short forecast for Western Australia
get_precis_forecast(state = "WA")

References

Forecast data come from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM ) Weather Data Services

http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml

Location data and other metadata for towns come from the BOM

anonymous FTP server with spatial data

ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/, specifically the DBF file portion of a shapefile,

ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/IDM00013.dbf.

See Also

parse_precis_forecast

Other BOM: find_forecast_towns(), get_ag_bulletin(), get_available_imagery(), get_available_radar(), get_coastal_forecast(), get_radar_imagery(), get_satellite_imagery(), parse_ag_bulletin(), parse_coastal_forecast(), parse_precis_forecast()

Other data fetching: get_ag_bulletin(), get_coastal_forecast(), get_data_drill(), get_data_drill_apsim(), get_dpird_apsim(), get_dpird_extremes(), get_dpird_minute(), get_dpird_summaries(), get_patched_point(), get_patched_point_apsim(), get_radar_imagery(), get_satellite_imagery()

Author(s)

Adam H. Sparks, [email protected] , Keith Pembleton, [email protected] , and Paul Melloy, [email protected]