Australian Hourly Weather Observations from 518 Stations (2015-2017)

Rainfall-Temperature-Aus-hourly contains aggregated hourly weather observations from 518 automatic weather stations across Australia. The data, sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and processed by Johns Hopkins University, covers a period from May 2015 to April 2017. It includes surface-level temperature, maximum/minimum temperature, and rainfall values aggregated from one-minute readings.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking and verifying weather forecast accuracy based on historical observations.
• Training machine learning models for hourly temperature prediction.
• Analyzing daily temperature extremes (maximum/minimum) based on aggregated station data.
• Modeling rainfall patterns and probabilities over time.

Strengths

• Data originates from 518 official Australian Bureau of Meteorology automatic weather stations.
• Covers a two-year time range from May 2015 to April 2017.
• Values are aggregated to a consistent hourly frequency for forecast comparison.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The description notes there are still missing values in the data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics for 'value_X' and 'covariate_0' must be inferred.

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Meteorology, processed by Johns Hopkins University.

Collection Method

Historical observations aggregated from one-minute readings at automatic weather stations.

Time Range

2015-05 to 2017-04

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Australia (land stations)