Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM, sometimes stylised as The Bureau) is an Australian federal government agency which monitors weather patterns around Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The official YouTube channel, which has the same name as the organisation was created on 2 March 2011, and regularly uploads videos almost regularly twice a day featuring weather reports and updates.
== Background ==
The Bureau of Meteorology was founded in 1908, under it's own piece of legislation, the Meteorology Act of 1906. Radio forecasts began in 1924. During World War II it was incorporated into the Royal Australian Airforce. In 1950 it became a founding member of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), because of this the original 1906 legislation was repealed, and the functions of the BoM reinforced by the new Meteorology Act of 1955 to bring it into standards with the WMO, at this time the BoM was part of the Department of the Interior. In 1957 began a hydro-meteorological service, partially in response to recent floods in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, being some of the most disastrous natural floods in Australia's history.
A World Meteorological Centre under WMO was established in Melbourne in 1964 with agreement by the federal government. In late 2022 the agency requested that media outlets update their style guides to refer to the agency by it's full title and shorten it to "the Bureau" when mentioned subsequently. This request was reversed after scientists and staff had death threats made against them from the general public, despite said staff and scientists having no input in the decision or request, nor was the request aimed at the general public, who referred to the agency as the BoM.
== Content ==
The first video uploaded to the channel was Tohoku Tsunami Animation, uploaded on 28 June 2011, it has over 3, 500 views as of 16 March 2024, the video is a 2D animation of the Tōhoku tsunami in Japanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnNtdJeBvhI which resulted in a magnitude 9 undersea earthquakehttps://www.britannica.com/event/Japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-of-2011. The most popular video as of 17 March 2024, with over 491,000 views and over 4,600 likes is Understanding ENSO, uploaded on 16 December 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzat16LMtQk, the video focuses on how El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) works, it is presented by senior Climatologist Agata Imielska, who also represents Australia at the WMOhttps://community.wmo.int/en/contacts/ms-agnieszka-agata-imielska.
=== Series ===
The Bureau of Meteorology channel has several YouTube video series, including:
* Landline Weather - Weekly weather reports produced by the ABChttps://iview.abc.net.au/show/landline-weather for the BoM, series has over 130 videoshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7nLYRncw-fN6jtoHP5I7Zrn.
* BoM Weather Guide - a YouTube exclusive mini-series released in mid to late 2018 totaling 3 episodeshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7lLmNVdutkQYHroDU9VGCcR.
* Severe Weather Updates - a series presented by BoM on YouTube totaling over 570 videos, uploads almost dailyhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7m3AC5a0crKS0bH0a5MzOD6.
* Ask the Bureau (#AskBOM) - a semi-active series exclusive to YouTube, started on 28 January 2016https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAbUM0fUbmA with How do tropical cyclones get their names?, uploads are sporadic, series has over 18 videos.
As well as various other videos which educate and provide information in regards to waterhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7mdVtZyZ7idlIiIC24UH4pA, climatehttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7mna2zJKs3F9JUhhVJ7Rirkhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7naJL31deES8QAV5E0q6U_H, and marine safetyhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbKuJrA7Vp7l0EAWKfmE_7jlhjQS07_d3.
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