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Current Warnings
 

Western Australia Forecast

  • Tuesday Hot with storms in the east. Becoming windy in the southwest later.

  • Wednesday Brisk, cool southerlies in the SW. Storms in North, Very hot in centre.

  • Thursday Heat increasing in the South. Storms in North and Centre.

  • Friday Hot-to-Very hot along the coast. Storms in the north, clear in the southeast.

WA Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Sat 03/12 Sun 04/12 Mon 05/12

34.2°C

Kununurra Ap
Hottest

42.3°C

Laverton Ap

41.1°C

Telfer Ap

40.0°C

Newman Ap

44.8°C

Marble Bar

10.8°C

Bridgetown
Coldest

5.7°C

Jarrahwood

5.1°C

Salmon Gums
 

2.5°C

Salmon Gums

SE 33km/h

North Island
Windiest

87km/h

Forrest

77km/h

Giles

62km/h

Forrest
-
no rain last hr Wettest

54.0mm

Drysdale River

58.5mm

Kilto
 

58.5mm

Kilto
Western Australia's Records for December
Max Min Rain
Highest 49.4°C at
Roebourne in 2011
Lowest 12.2°C at
Mount Barker in 1922
Highest 35.0°C at
Marble Bar in 1902
Lowest 0.0°C at
Bridgetown in 1953
Highest 711.0mm at
Munglinup West in 2010

Western Australia Weather Forecasts

Station
(ungroup by district)
Forecast Min Max Chance of rain Rain amount Frost risk 9am 3pm
Wind RH Wind RH
°C °C km/h % km/h %
Mostly sunny
12 25 50% < 1mm Nil S 12 53 SW 27 46
Mostly sunny
12 27 5% < 1mm Nil S 24 50 SSW 34 46
Mostly sunny
9 23 50% < 1mm Nil WNW 4 61 W 21 57
Mostly sunny
13 22 80% < 1mm Nil WNW 18 50 W 27 50
Mostly sunny
11 30 50% < 1mm Nil - - - -
Windy
19 32 30% < 1mm Nil SSE 31 38 SSW 34 44
Sunny
16 33 5% < 1mm Nil E 12 39 NW 7 15
Mostly sunny
15 25 30% < 1mm Nil ESE 14 65 SE 22 64
Possible thunderstorm
27 33 50% < 1mm Nil ESE 12 67 SSW 18 67
Showers
21 27 70% 1-5mm Nil ENE 13 71 NE 17 58
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Weather News

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10:51 EDT

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Farmer's photos of NSW flooding turned into fundraising calendar

10:43 EDT

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Skiing on summer snow

10:10 EDT

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