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Current Warnings
 

Western Australia Forecast

  • Sunday Hot with showers and storms inland and east. Cooler change crossing south. Warm west coast.

  • Monday Hot with showers and storms north, heavy interior. Mild & clearing in far south. Heating up in west.

  • Tuesday Hot to very hot. Thunderstorms over the interio and extreme north.

  • Wednesday Widespread storms in the north, dry in the south. Very hot in the west, warm to very warm elsehwere.

  • Thursday Widespread thunderstorms Pilbara and Kimberley. Coastal showers for northwest, dry in the south.

WA Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Thu 19/01 Fri 20/01 Sat 21/01

33.7°C

Leonora Ap
Hottest

38.9°C

Leonora Ap

41.6°C

Nyang

42.0°C

Murchison

46.6°C

Gascoyne Junction

14.8°C

Styles Tower
Coldest

6.0°C

Jarrahwood

8.4°C

Eyre

10.0°C

Albany Airport

5.1°C

Rocky Gully

SSW 44km/h

Rottnest Island
Windiest

66km/h

Esperance Ap

68km/h

Geraldton Ap

62km/h

Wyndham Ap
-

0.4mm last hr

Cocos Island Ap
Wettest

41.8mm

Warmun

68.4mm

Bonney Downs

23.0mm

Wyndham Ap

23.2mm

Wyndham Ap
Western Australia's Records for January
Max Min Rain
Highest 49.8°C at
Mundrabilla Station in 1979
Lowest 13.9°C at
Mount Barker in 1917
Highest 35.5°C at
Wittenoom in 2003
Lowest 0.9°C at
Bridgetown in 1921
Highest 504.8mm at
Kuri Bay in 1982

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 %
Sunny
16 26 20% < 1mm Nil SSW 27 61 SW 34 51
Mostly sunny
17 26 5% < 1mm Nil S 32 63 SSW 39 56
Windy
14 25 20% < 1mm Nil SSW 19 60 WSW 26 48
Possible shower
15 20 40% < 1mm Nil SW 21 70 WSW 28 53
Sunny
17 31 20% < 1mm Nil - - - -
Windy
21 27 5% < 1mm Nil SSW 28 70 - -
Possible thunderstorm
24 39 80% 1-5mm Nil NNE 21 40 WNW 17 23
Possible thunderstorm
19 27 70% 1-5mm Nil ESE 14 76 SE 14 71
Possible shower
27 32 50% < 1mm Nil WNW 18 71 WNW 20 66
Showers increasing
23 36 60% < 1mm Nil NNW 14 62 NNW 19 41
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Weather News

Heating up across the southeastern capitals

11:19 EDT

A couple of scorchers are on the way for Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney over the next few days.

Darwin not quite that wet (yet)

11:13 EDT

Following a good start to January 2017 rainfall, when 125mm fell during the first 48 hours of the year, conditions have been relatively dry for the Northern Territory capital.

Steamy night in Brisbane

14:29 EDT

In the early hours of the morning, Brisbane had its warmest minimum temperature since at least 1999, when the mercury halted its descent at 28 degrees just after 3am.