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After four dry days, showers are returning to Perth and are likely each day through to the end of next week, bringing 30 to 50 millimetres of  rain.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The area from Mandurah to Margaret River should be the wettest with more than 50mm for some. The wettest days are likely to be today, Saturday and [...]

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WILD weather has caused havoc across Perth, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and plunging homes into darkness.    Winds travelling at more than 100km/h tore through the city overnight, ripping the roof off a granny flat in Doubleview, collapsing a ceiling in Joondalup and blowing in the windows of a house in City Beach. More than 17,000 are [...]

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The latest in a series of destructive cold fronts slammed into WA overnight, causing destructive winds, rain and hail storms. The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning at 6.45am, following similar warnings issued throughout the weekend. Waves from the Swan River are washing onto the Kwinana Freeway north of Canning Highway citybound. There [...]

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Gale force winds tipped to hit Perth this weekend have forced two ferry operators to cancel all trips to Rottnest Island.                                                                         The popular Rottnest Express confirmed it has cancelled all bookings from Friday to Sunday inclusive while Oceanic Cruises will not operate on Saturday or Sunday. The third company which operates ferry trips to the [...]

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South west WA residents have been warned to brace for a destructive storm bringing gales of up to 125 kmh tomorrow morning. The Bureau of Meteorology says the winds will come along with a cold front over the state’s south west. Residents between Jurien Bay and Albany would be worst affected. The worst of the [...]

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Hardly  a drop of rain has fallen on Perth as the city feels the second hottest start to the year on record.  Perth has broke the record for the sunniest May on record today since 1876.  Forecast shows that showers are coming to Perth about 3am tomorrow and continue until late Thursday. Temperatures are going as low as 18 C forecast for Friday [...]

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The first of the winter weather is expected to hit Perth next week. Weatherzone meteorologists are forecasting wetter, windier and colder weather for most of the southern half of the state starting on Wednesday. Weatherzone Head Meteorologist Matthew Pearce said the strength of the cold front would likely result in 20 to 30mm of rain [...]

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This is turning out to be Perth’s driest start to autumn on record, taking at least 47 days to exceed just five millimetres of rain.    Before this year, the longest it had taken to exceed five millimetres in autumn was 46 days and that was in 1994. The rest of this week will be bone [...]

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