West Aussies between Kalbarri and Esperance have been advised to prepare for a monster storm set to thrash the coast.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Meteorology said two cold fronts will sweep the southern part of the state on Saturday afternoon and throughout Sunday, bringing with it severe weather and damaging wind gusts in excess of 100km\/h.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeak wind gusts may reach up to 120 km\/h about the coast between Mandurah and Walpole for a period during Sunday morning,\u201d the bureau said.<\/p>\n
The fierce wind \u201cmay cause damage to homes and property\u201d, and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services is warning locals to secure or tie down any outdoor furniture, trampolines or other loose items around the home that could be picked up and thrown by strong winds.<\/p>\n
Locations set to be affected include Albany, Bunbury, Busselton, Esperance, Katanning, Mandurah, Manjimup, Margaret River, Merredin, Mount Barker, Narrogin, Northam and Perth.<\/p>\n
On Sunday afternoon, the Great Southern, southern central Wheatbelt and remaining southern coastal districts will cop the brunt of the strong winds, which will be accompanied by showers and thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy early Sunday evening winds will tend southwesterly and begin to ease over western and inland districts, but damaging wind gusts are likely to continue about the south coast throughout the evening until around midnight,\u201d the bureau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople in the southwest of WA experience a front as windy as this about five times per year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emergency services also issued a coastal hazard warning for large swathes of the west coast, alerting coastal residents between Kalbarri and Walpole that gale force winds will stir up large swells.<\/p>\n
\u201cDamaging surf conditions could cause significant beach erosion between Geraldton and Bunbury, including Perth local waters from Sunday afternoon,\u201d the bureau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWaves are expected to reduce below warning thresholds during Monday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wet September weather continues after a record-breaking winter in which Perth experienced its wettest August since 1955.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also the first time since 1996 that all three winter months of June, July, and August have exceeded the average amount of expected rainfall.<\/p>\n
Perth seven-day forecastSaturday: 23C, showers increasing \ud83c\udf26\ufe0fSunday: 13C-19C, showers and windy with chance of thunderstorm \ud83c\udf29\ufe0fMonday: 9C-17C, shower or two \ud83c\udf26\ufe0fTuesday: 7C-18C, shower or two \ud83c\udf26\ufe0fWednesday: 10C-20C, showers \ud83c\udf27\ufe0fThursday: 9C-17C, shower or two \ud83c\udf26\ufe0fFriday: 6C-19C, partly cloudy \ud83c\udf25\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Aussies between Kalbarri and Esperance have been advised to prepare for a monster storm set to thrash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,45,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-139742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-wa-news","12":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}