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Squally front for WA's southwest
James Casey, Saturday May 21, 2016 - 12:12 AEST
A strong cold front is making it's way across Western Australia, bringing gale force winds, heavy rain and a large swell offshore.
The front hit overnight with Cape Naturaliste gusting up to 109km/h at 2:45am. The gusty winds continued into the morning with Rottnest and Ocean Reef gusting over 100km/h while Mandurah gusted to 87km/h and Perth Airport reached 74km/h.
These winds brought down trees and powerlines, with over 7,500 homes losing power.
The strong winds caused offshore wave heights to increase rapidly. Waves increased from two metres last night to over five metres this morning before the buoys went offline. This coupled with an abnormally high tide will result in the heightened risk of coastal erosion and strong currents in the ocean, so be extremely careful if you are out on the ocean or near the beach.
Heavy rain made its way across the Southwest bringing the risk of localised flooding. Witchcliffe picked up 50.2mm between 1am and 5am while Bridgetown accumulated 45.6mm between 3am and 5:30am.
The worst may not be over though, as thunderstorms are a risk of sparking up this afternoon in the region between Bunbury, Augusta and Albany. These storms are a risk of becoming severe with damaging wind gusts and hail.
Conditions should ease substantially by this evening as the front moves to the east. The wild weather we are seeing today will ease to patchy showers tomorrow.
Keep up to date with the latest warnings at http://www.weatherzone.com.au/warnings.jsp
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