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Western Australian warmth

Guy Dixon, Thursday October 2, 2014 - 12:38 AEST

Parts of Western Australia sweltered through a warm night as cloud kept the days heat in.

Many locations across the Great Southern, South West and Southern Coastal districts endured a warm day yesterday with temperatures reaching up to nine degrees above average. Cloud with a low pressure trough soon developed over central and southern parts of the state however, prohibiting the escape of long wave radiation.

As a result, overnight temperatures remained relatively warm with locations such as Southern Cross Airfield, Lake Grace and Busselton Airport all remaining at least eight degrees above average.

Showers and thunderstorms also sparked up over the Gascoyne, Goldfields, Central Wheat Belt and Central West where over 2600 lightning strikes were recorded within a 600 km/h radius of Three Springs.

Despite the plenty of showers showing up on the radar, most of the rain fell over the broad expanses rural WA. Only a few millimetres managed to fall in the rain gauges with Coondee picking up just 2.4 millimetres.

This trough will continue to move east contracting light isolated showers over the Southern Interior and into South Australia. It's most significant impacts however will be felt by South Australians in the form of heat. This trough and a secondary front following in hot pursuit are expected to bring temperatures in the thirties to Adelaide on Saturday and Monday.

- Weatherzone

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