  The continuing effects of climate change require farmers and growers to have
greater understanding of how these changes affect crop production. However,
while climatic data is generally available to help provide much of that
understanding, it can often be in a form not easy to digest. The proposed
Combined Location Online Weather Data (CLOWD) framework is an easy-to-use
online platform for analysing recent and historical weather data of any
location within Australia at the click of a map. CLOWD requires no programming
skills and operates in any HTML5 web browser on PC and mobile devices. It
enables comparison between current and previous growing seasons over a range of
environmental parameters, and can create a plain-English PDF report for offline
use, using natural language generation (NLG). This paper details the platform,
the design decisions taken and outlines how farmers and growers can use CLOWD
to better understand current growing conditions. Prototypes of CLOWD are now
online for PCs and smartphones.
