After several years of planning by the Bureau of Meteorology and Lake Macquarie City Council, Lake Macquarie has a new official weather station. The automatic weather station (AWS) has become operational from this month and it is transmitting wind, temperature, rainfall and pressure data. It is Lake Macquarie's first climatic station since the closure of the Rathmines Airport Meteorological Office in 1950.

The current data from the Lake Macquarie AWS can be accessed here.