{"id":705429,"date":"2026-05-31T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:02:09","slug":"wa-and-perth-weather-forecast-once-in-every-five-years-storm-slams-state-thousands-without-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705429\/","title":{"rendered":"WA and Perth weather forecast: \u2018Once-in-every-five-years storm\u2019 slams State, thousands without power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A severe weather warning is still in place for a large stretch of WA, with the Bureau of Meteorology saying destructive winds are set to get stronger as the day goes on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cA deepening and intense low pressure system will approach the southwest today 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 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cLocally destructive winds gusts in excess of 125 km\/h are likely over an area southwest of a line from Lancelin to Albany, including Perth, during Sunday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\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 3 to 5 years in the southwest of WA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe weather warning is still in place for a large stretch of WA, with the Bureau of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,115038,45,1192],"class_list":["post-705429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-regional-news","tag-wa-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705429","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=705429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}