With rain absent for most of autumn, wet weather is finally here and it shows no signs of slowing with Perth set to get drenched in up to 60 millimetres of rain from Friday through to Sunday.
The week started with bustling conditions, with rain and strong wind warnings in place for Perth, Lancelin, Bunbury, Geographe and the Leeuwin coast on Monday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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And while the weather is predicted to improve on Wednesday and Thursday - rain is expected to hit again on Friday, along with a possible thunderstorm, BoM's Neil Bennett said.
"We have a fairly good system moving up from the South-West, that will start to affect us later on Thursday, and probably not until Friday when we will start to see some showers developing later in the day," Mr Bennett said.
"Then we'll have a period of heavier rain, and once the cold front has moved through we're then left with the air flow moving from the west, so that's going to have a lot of showers embedded within it, and that will be what produces the rain as we go through to Saturday and Sunday."
The rain moves in after one of the driest April's on record, with little or no measurable rainfall reported.
Mean maximum temperatures were above average for most locations away from the coast, while mean minimum temperatures were slightly cooler than normal. It was one of the sunniest April's on record in Perth.
Perth 7-Day forecast:
Monday: Showers 14-21 degrees
Tuesday: Possible early shower 12-22 degrees
Wednesday: Mostly sunny 9-22 degrees
Thursday: Mostly sunny 9-23 degrees
Friday: Showers developing 11-24 degrees
Saturday: Showers 11-19 degrees
Sunday: Shower or two 11-20 degrees