Wild weather is set to lash much of Western Australia as a cold front brings rarely seen conditions to a large chunk of the state.<\/p>\n
A severe weather warning has been issued across WA\u2019s south-west by the Bureau of Meteorology, with thunderstorms and potentially damaging winds expected.<\/p>\n
Examining the forecast for WA, Sky News meteorologist Marina Neuman explained the severe weather event is expected to target the widespread area from Geraldton to Albany and across the state\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n
A cold front is expected to move into the region on Sunday, bringing heavy rainfall and the threat of flash flooding, Neuman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat flash flood threat is for that heavy rainfall that’s moving in. High totals in a very short amount of time, plus destructive wind gusts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The meteorologist said that wind gusts brought by the weather system could reach up to 125kph.<\/p>\n
The severe weather warning issued by the Bureau outlined the possibility for \u201cdamaging to locally destructive wind gusts\u201d across the South West Land Division.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring Sunday, a deepening low-pressure system approaches the southwest and will bring a significant burst of damaging to locally destructive winds to western and southern parts of the South West Land Division,\u201d the warning read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe winds associated with the low-pressure system during Sunday afternoon, evening and Monday morning are expected to produce dangerous weather that is only seen once every three to five years in the southwest of WA.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bureau has forecast a very high chance of showers for Perth on Sunday, along with a possible thunderstorm in the morning.<\/p>\n
The potential storm could be severe and bring heavy rain that could lead to flash flooding, according to the forecast.<\/p>\n
Damaging winds are also likely for the WA capital, which is set to record a 21C high and a 13C low.<\/p>\n
Weather forecast across AustraliaSydney<\/p>\n
A mostly sunny day with a slight chance of a shower has been forecast for the New South Wales capital on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The city is expected to reach 20C and record an 11C low.<\/p>\n
Melbourne<\/p>\n
Melbourne will likely be partly cloudy as the mercury climbs to 15C.<\/p>\n
A medium chance of showers, most likely to occur in the late morning and afternoon, has also been forecast.<\/p>\n
Brisbane<\/p>\n
A mostly sunny day is expected in Brisbane, along with light winds.<\/p>\n
A low of 13C and a high of 23C have been forecast for the city.<\/p>\n
Adelaide<\/p>\n
A wet day is expected in the South Australian capital, with a high chance of showers forecast.<\/p>\n
The mercury is set to record a maximum of 17C and a minimum of 12C.<\/p>\n
Canberra<\/p>\n
Canberra could see a shower on Sunday amid a partly cloudy day for the city.<\/p>\n
A chilly 4C low has been forecast, along with a 13C high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild weather is set to lash much of Western Australia as a cold front brings rarely seen conditions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,15157,70310,1192,3439,10650],"class_list":["post-705048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-rain","tag-thunderstorms","tag-weather","tag-western-australia","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705048","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=705048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}