CFN gets its data from the following sources:
GFS: United States National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global operational Forecast System (GFS) model with 3-hourly forecast parameters out to 8 days (+192 hours), updated 4 times per day (00, 06, 12, 18 UTC), freely available (in real-time) for commercial use at
NOMADS (NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System).
ACCESS: Australian Bureau of Meteorology Australian Community and Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS) models - ACCESS-R, with hourly forecast parameters out to 3 days (+72 hours), updated 4 times per day (00, 06, 12, 18 UTC); and ACCESS-G, with three hourly forecast parameters out to 10 days (+240 hours), updated 2 times per day (00, 12 UTC), freely available (in real-time) for research use at
Bureau of Meteorology OPeNDAP server - NMOC Atmosphere Data Library.
Himawari-8: Satellite image originally processed by the Bureau of Meteorology from the geostationary satellite Himawari-8 operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency, updated every ten minutes, freely available (in real-time) for non-commercial use at
Bureau of Meteorology FTP Server.
To further increase your forecast confidence, check out the Norwegian weather agency, the only freely available service for detailed cloud forecasts from the European global model (ECMWF) for Australian locations. Links to the
yr.no (meteogram) forecast,
Bureau of Meteorology official 7-day forecast,
Weatherzone three-hourly cloud cover probability for the next 48 hours, and
sunrise, sunset and moon times are included on the meteogram page for each particular location.