The federal government says it is "ridiculous" for the Bureau of Meteorology to be talking about rebranding itself amid floods in the eastern states, as the cost of the agency's move is revealed to be in excess of $220,000.
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Meteorology asked media outlets to update their style guides to stop calling it the "weather bureau" and the "BOM", even though its own mobile app is still currently called "BOM weather".