Objective The Bureau's purpose is: to provide trusted, reliable, and responsive services for Australia - all day, every day. To achieve its purpose - across the domains of weather, water, climate, oceans and space weather - the Bureau: monitors and reports on current conditions; provides forecasts, warnings and long-term outlooks; analyses and explains trends; fosters greater public understanding and use of the information it provides; and continues to extend its understanding of, and ability to forecast, Australian conditions