Bureau of Meteorology

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is the National Meteorological Authority for Australia.

The Bureau was established under the Meteorology Act of 1906 by formally bringing together the individual colonial/State Meteorological Services that had existed prior to that time. It commenced operation as a Commonwealth agency on 1 January 1908. Following the repeal of the Meteorology Act of 1906, the Bureau was formally reestablished, under the charge of the Director of Meteorology, by the Meteorology Act of 1955. This act provides the explicit legal basis and the basic charter for its operation. It is established by the Act as a primarily public interest agency but with the power to make charges for specialised services to individual users and user groups.