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Western Australian Weather

Current Warnings
 

Western Australia Forecast

  • Saturday Windy with heavy rain over the north and east. Very hot in the south and west.

  • Sunday Possible tropical cyclone crossing the northwest. Mostly dry and windy in the southwest.

  • Monday Heavy rain and strong winds over northern parts. Very hot in the west, hot elsewhere.

  • Tuesday Showers and storms in the north. Mostly dry and warm-to-hot elsewhere.

WA Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Wed 21/12 Thu 22/12 Fri 23/12

30.9°C

Mount Magnet
Hottest

43.4°C

Morawa Ap

44.0°C

Eneabba

44.0°C

Onslow Ap

45.7°C

Onslow Ap

11.3°C

Shannon
Coldest

12.8°C

Eyre

7.0°C

Albany Airport
 

0.0°C

Cygnet Bay

N 40km/h

Browse Is
Windiest

92km/h

Cunderdin Airfield

74km/h

Troughton Island

88km/h

Browse Is
-
no rain last hr Wettest

175.2mm

Yulmbu

225.6mm

Broome Ap
 

225.6mm

Broome Ap
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 Observations

Latest Observations
Station
(Ungroup by district)
Time Wind dir Wind spd Wind gust Tmp Dew pt Feels like RH Fire Rain Pres
km/h km/h °C °C °C % mm hPa
06:20 WST
S 7 9 20.2 11.1 20.2 56 4 0.0 1006.5
06:20 WST
SSW 11 15 16.0 11.7 16.0 75 2 0.0 -
06:20 WST
ESE 6 9 15.0 13.6 12.2 91 1 0.0 1009.3
06:20 WST
S 31 41 23.9 18.7 23.9 72 5 0.0 1002.2
06:20 WST
E 17 22 24.4 12.4 24.4 47 8 0.0 1008.2
06:20 WST
ENE 13 15 25.3 17.7 26.3 62 5 0.0 1008.8
06:20 WST
NW 22 35 29.7 25.9 36.8 80 4 37.0 1001.7
08:50 WST
E 22 26 21.9 21.3 21.9 96 2 8.6 1010.4
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Weather News

Broome swamped in wettest December on record

16:33 EDT

A tropical low pressure system has combined with Cyclone Yvette to dump more than 200 millimetres of rain on Broome.

Detailed Christmas Day forecast

12:21 EDT

Intense heat, thunderstorms, flooding rain and damaging winds are all on the cards for Christmas Day this year.

SA Government declares 'code red' for homeless during hot spell, shelters to stay open longer

12:08 EDT

South Australia's homeless services will be boosted over the Christmas period as a result of forecast extreme heat over the next few days.